Bong Joon Ho presents Mickey 17 in Seoul with Robert Pattinson, says he wished to put in writing a screenplay that AI couldn’t | Hollywood
Jan 20, 2025 09:08 PM IST
Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho is again with Mickey 17, a sci-fi movie starring Robert Pattinson within the lead position. The movie releases in theatres in March.
Director Bong Joon Ho’s much-awaited movie Mickey 17, his first mission since Oscar-winning Parasite, is all set to premiere at Berlin Movie Competition. The movie’s lead star Robert Pattinson and director Bong Joon Ho had been current on the press convention of the movie at Seoul, the place they posed for photos and talked about making the movie. The director not solely addressed the delays that the movie has been dealing with by way of launch, but additionally added his ideas on ‘outsmarting’ AI. (Additionally learn: Mickey 17 trailer: Robert Pattison is on a mission to die in Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up to Parasite. Watch)
What Bong mentioned
As per a brand new report by Display Day by day, Bong opened up in regards to the development in synthetic intelligence (AI) in recent times and mentioned: “I ask myself each night time, how can I write a screenplay that AI couldn’t? I need to make a ‘transfer 78’ in each different web page of my screenplays. How can we outsmart AI? I need to grow to be a author who writes one screenplay a 12 months that AI might by no means replicate.” He added that the movie’s launch was delayed because of the strikes final 12 months.
On casting Robert Pattinson
On the choice to forged Robert within the lead position, the director mentioned: “Robert is, after all, identified for taking part in superheroes like Batman, however [I had also seen him in] the Safide brothers’ Good Time and [Robert Eggers’] The Lighthouse. He has demonstrated outstanding expertise in such nice unbiased American movies, so I had at all times been taken with him. The position [of Mickey] demanded duality, shifting between the pitiful and barely silly Mickey 17 to the manic but charismatic Mickey 18, so I had Pattinson in thoughts from the beginning. The casting course of was comparatively straightforward too, because it appears he wished to play an oddball character like this.”
The movie relies on creator Edward Ashton’s novel of the identical title and options an ensemble forged. It additionally consists of Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Edward’s novel, which was revealed earlier this 12 months, centres on Mickey7, a person on an expedition to colonise the ice world Niflheim.
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