Fans Are Furious as Warner Bros Announces New Release Date for Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17
Fans are furious at the announcement to push the release date of Bong Joon-ho's highly anticipated Mickey 17.
Originally slated for a March 29, 2024 release, it will now be pushed back until January 31, 2025.
While plot details remain under wraps, the film features a spectacular cast, including Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Thomas Turgoose, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Henshall and Steve Park.
The film will be an adaptation of Edward Ashton's 2022 sci-fi novel Mickey 7, which follows space explorer Mickey Barnes, who is on his seventh cloned iteration, surviving on a beachhead installation on an alien world.
Mickey 17 will be the first Joon-ho film since his 2020 Best Picture-winning Parasite and has had audiences curious since the casting was first announced.
Warner Bros pulled the film's release date last month, and people have been sitting in anticipation, waiting for the latest update.
The second the news dropped, people took to social media to express their confusion and frustration.
truly just put me in hibernation for the rest of the year please https://t.co/7zy4IoJRQN
— natalie ? (@natalieirene__) February 21, 2024
i’m sad all over again https://t.co/WUvB1qxR51
— denise?? (@eternaItwilight) February 21, 2024
Dear Warner Bros, if you are afraid to properly release Bong Joon-ho's follow-up to a BEST PICTURE winner, please sell it to someone else who will
there is no way it deserves a dump date like that
thanks— Gregory Ellwood - The Playlist ?? (@TheGregoryE) February 21, 2024
why is bong joon-ho’s follow-up to parasite being unceremoniously dumped at the end of january https://t.co/034Drt5y0u
— Zo? Rose Bryant (@ZoeRoseBryant) February 21, 2024
With the additional ten-month delay on release, Mickey 17 drops at an odd time in the cinematic calendar.
Usually, films that are expected to have an awards run will debut in festivals in the fall before getting a theatrical release in late fall/early winter.
With Mickey 17 not debuting until January, it's an interesting choice from Warner Bros as Joon-ho's previous feature was so well received by The Academy in 2020.
Nonetheless, the release is now January 31, 2025, and we're sure Bong Joon-ho has another hit on his hands.
