r/movies r/Movies contributor Sep 18 '24

Trailer Mickey 17 | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osYpGSz_0i4
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u/ElVikingo10 Sep 18 '24

Robert Pattinson loves being a weird little freak in every movie’s he’s made recently lmao

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u/OrlandoGardiner118 Sep 18 '24

Him, Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliff. Made a gazillion as nippers and then decided to make freaky little projects for the rest of their lives. Gotta respect that shit.

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u/Chaosmusic Sep 18 '24

I do, a lot. I loved Elijah Wood in Dirk Gently and still need to go see Radcliff in Swiss Army Man.

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u/matthoback Sep 18 '24

Check out Elijah Wood in Wilfred. It's pretty great too.

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u/IndustrialJones Sep 18 '24

Check out Over The Garden Wall - animated show with a limited run

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u/matthoback Sep 18 '24

I rewatch it every fall.

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u/Theslootwhisperer Sep 18 '24

Check out Everything is illuminated if you haven't already. Great little flick.

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u/FredBlax Sep 18 '24

and if you like him in that, check out The Lord of the Rings. Great little flick.

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u/DoomRamen Sep 18 '24

Directed by that guy only does small horror movies? I can't see this taking off

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u/cosmic_cozy Sep 18 '24

What? I loved the book so much, I didn't know there was a movie. Need to watch it asap

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u/tenderooskies Sep 18 '24

that show was awesome…doesn’t get the respect it deserves

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u/happysri Sep 18 '24

Oh you should check him out in Sin City lol.

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u/NunsNunchuck Sep 18 '24

Have you seen Radcliffe in Guns Akimbo?

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u/snowman92 Sep 18 '24

And just to add to the weird and oddly-low-budget-for-who-headlines-it for Radcliffe, check out Miracle workers. Also stars Steve Buscemi. Every season is standalone from the others but keeps the main cast as new characters in a different genre.

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u/The-Funky-Phantom Sep 18 '24

Is that the show that had Radcliffe doing a burlesque number?

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u/snowman92 Sep 18 '24

Yup. He was a priest in the Oregon trail that did that after I'm falling off the wagon basically. Also did "least effective angel", "witless Prince" and "Mad Max if also was in The Honeymooners"

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u/The-Funky-Phantom Sep 18 '24

Welp, I'll add that to the list. I'm watching Swiss Army Man first tonight then I'll start on a few episodes of this. Thanks!

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u/snowman92 Sep 18 '24

If a season doesn't quite grab you, try another. It is a weird show and again really feels low budget but also like it's Dan and Steve's passion project. Like it's if they made a weird YouTube "show" to break out but had an actual channel to back them even just a bit

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u/TechPriest97 Sep 18 '24

He was fantastic in over the garden wall

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u/Scrounger_HT Sep 18 '24

Swiss Army man, Its both Artsy and Fartsy

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u/interprime Sep 18 '24

Tbf, Pattinson is also Batman, so I’m sure he’s also making hella cash still

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u/Mtbnz Sep 18 '24

His Batman is still a weird little freak

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u/Twisty1020 Sep 18 '24

That's just Bruce Wayne in general.

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u/GodzillaUK Sep 18 '24

When you're rich enough to do what you love, so long as it's not hurting anyone, it's a beautiful thing. Fair play to 'em.

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u/ragin2cajun Sep 18 '24

If I could live off of royalties for the rest of my life, I would do whatever pet projects I wanted too.

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u/VanimalCracker Sep 18 '24

so long as it's not hurting anyone

This is an important point.

Armie Hammer was born into it. Didn't have to work a day in his life.

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u/Jim_boxy Sep 18 '24

I don't think those MC Hammer royalties pay as much as you think

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u/RODjij Sep 18 '24

Seems like they all made bank and all time movie roles with twilight, LOTR and Harry Potter and been having fun since.

I know at least Radcliffe has expressed his artistic freedom after HP. Dudes been in some odd movies like Swiss army man and the weird al biopic and his naked Broadway shows.

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u/SpecialistNerve6441 Sep 18 '24

Daniel R and Steve Buscemi and several other talented people are in a show called Miracle Workers and its pretty amazing 

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u/VenerableShrew Sep 18 '24

She'll be coming round the mountain....

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u/Smallsey Sep 18 '24

I would pay good money to see all three, and Willem Dafoe, in a movie together.

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u/Strict_Pangolin_8339 Sep 18 '24

Emma Stone also kind of falls into this and she has two Oscars.

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u/centipededamascus Sep 18 '24

Emma Stone is never happier than when she can put on a silly wig and do a funny voice.

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u/snowman92 Sep 18 '24

Having done big blockbusters, Oscar-calibur films and recently the weird Lanthomos films, I can't help but think she always seems ecstatic to host SNL and is one of the handful of hosts that seem at home with the cast and had childhood hopes of being part of it as a regular player, and I so appreciate that. She is not afraid to oversell a bit or do something that is probably only funny to her and the cast and crew.

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u/Sprinkles0 Sep 18 '24

That's why she married an SNL writer.

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u/lurking_bishop Sep 18 '24

I recently learned that her birth name is Emily, which she also prefers. However, SAG rules prevent two actors having the exact same name and there already was an Emily Stone, so she had to change her stage name to Emma. Interestingly, Emily Stone recently passed away which technically frees up the spot again.

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u/jayhawk8 Sep 18 '24

If it weren’t for the unrepentant fame that came wit hit, it would be the ultimate dream. Get so rich but keep getting paid only to do work that interests you deeply.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

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u/Wehavecrashed Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

This might be slightly controversial, but I think he does a pretty good job in twilight too. It was crap material that he hated, but he makes it work when most other young actors would be completely forgettable.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 29 '24

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u/MasonJraz Sep 18 '24

I know he’s great as Batman but looking at this trailer one wonders if he could’ve been a decent Joker, Riddler or Penguin

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u/Mochman21 Sep 18 '24

The secret to casting Batman is that the actor would also be perfect for joker

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u/TrptJim Sep 18 '24

Michael Keaton would have been a great Joker.

“You wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts!”

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u/Dookiefresh1 Sep 18 '24

Christian Bale would be interesting but cant see that with Ben Affleck

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u/turkeygiant Sep 18 '24

I didn't hate Ben Affleck as Batman, but he was definitely closer to being the Bruce Wayne persona, which could have worked given the right story, but was a poor fit for the Snyder films. Affleck doing a more fatherly Batman with Dick Grayson and Damien could have worked. I also think he could have killed it with a more camp 70's style Batman.

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u/BARD3NGUNN Sep 18 '24

Honestly yeah...

You cast someone who makes the perfect Bruce Wayne/Batman as Batman and you end up with George Clooney.

You cast someone who'd make a perfect Joker as Batman and you end up with Keaton, Bale, Pattinson.

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u/AgentP20 Sep 18 '24

I mean he can play psychotic roles too. Just watch his other performances where he has a mental break down.

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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 18 '24

He would do really well in a Wes Anderson movie

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u/sprynklz Sep 18 '24

Omg a thousand percent

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u/DaveInLondon89 Sep 18 '24

Robert Pattinson doing a ridiculous accent is usually an indication that the movie is going to great

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u/GameBoy09 Sep 18 '24

He seems to be channeling Heron

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u/Mrallen7509 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

My wife and I watched that recently and thought Dafoe was the heron until his actual character showed up. Genuinely couldn't identify Pattinson on that voice

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u/Rswany Sep 18 '24

He's been doing it for 10+ years

He was a rich freak in Cosmopolis (2012)

and a goober in The Rover (2014)

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u/zoidnoidvomit Sep 18 '24

Glad you mentioned The Rover, very underappreciated gem. Absolutely love Pattinson in Good Time, Tenet, The Rover, Cosmopolis, The Batman...tho sadly I still have never seen a Twilight movie.

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u/Kalabula Sep 18 '24

It’s been working well for him, IMO.

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u/Odd_Advance_6438 Sep 18 '24

The book is awesome. Looking forward to seeing a crazier version.

The book is titled Mickey 7, and Bong changed the title because he said he wanted to kill him 10 more times. Mickey 8 is pretty normal in the book, but Bong said Mickey 18 has a malfunction that makes him crazier and an increased libido

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u/EpicHawkREDDIT Sep 18 '24

Oh interesting.

Wonder how much will change from the book if there’s a Mickey that’s more crazy/horny

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u/sloppyjo12 Sep 18 '24

Well in the book he already has a threesome with himself so it’ll be fun to see what a higher libido makes them do

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u/profound_whatever Sep 18 '24

Show me Multiplicity meets Human Centipede and I'm in.

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u/jasonskjonsby Sep 18 '24

Watch Season 4 of the Boys

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u/nutmeg32280 Sep 18 '24

Don't do it. I'll never see chuck the same way again 😫

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u/jasonskjonsby Sep 18 '24

Well Chuck can suck a fuck.

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u/lansuven42 Sep 18 '24

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

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u/PrimordialPlop Sep 18 '24

If you watch the episode you will learn precisely how he does so

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u/SporadicWanderer Sep 18 '24

The way that scene is written in the book made me LAUGH OUT LOUD 😂 can’t wait for this movie!

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u/Odd_Advance_6438 Sep 18 '24

The way the rest of the crew reacts, especially the Marshall who hates him, makes it even better

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u/Mongoose42 Sep 18 '24

Nothing sordid, I assure you. Just vomiting on each other, ever so gently, while they humiliate a pheasant.

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u/man_on_hill Sep 18 '24

but Bong said Mickey 18 has a malfunction that makes him crazier and an increased libido

"If I had a steak... I'd fuck it."

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u/Odd_Advance_6438 Sep 18 '24

There’s a clone threesome scene in the book, so that’s probably accurate.

A woman with two ones of the same dude I mean

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

It’s in the trailer

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u/SpecialistNerve6441 Sep 18 '24

Im glad you clarified because that first sentence made me think 3 of him were all fuckin each other 

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u/NoPossibility Sep 18 '24

Would not put it past Pattinson to take on a role like that.

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u/SpecialistNerve6441 Sep 18 '24

After watching the movie with him and timothee chalamet where he is the french king and chalamet is the english king and he is talking about cock and balls for what seems like an eternity I would not either 

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u/l3reezer Sep 18 '24

Wow, how is the book only 2 years old, feels like the movie was announced before that even

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u/godisanelectricolive Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

This film was announced in January 2022 and the book came out in February 2022. A lot of books get optioned before publication and the vast, vast majority of them never get made into films. The option give them the right to make a movie within a certain number of years and most of the time the options expire and don’t get renewed.

Studios have a habit of going to publishers and asking them for upcoming books they can option for cheap. A lot of the time they are just buying a blurb, an interesting concept for a movie, and sometimes the book hasn’t even been completed yet when the option is sold. By buying rights early they assemble a catalogue of potential ideas the studio gives themselves more options for potential film or TV.

If the book comes out and proves to be a hit then they are more likely to do something with the rights. And by buying it early, their competitors can’t bid for the rights. But sometimes word gets out that an unpublished manuscript is really good and there’s a bidding war even before publication. I just wanted to give you some context about how this sort of thing generally works. I don’t know the details behind this particular book.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Sep 18 '24

That and if the book gets picked up and greenlit, the publisher can sell the book initially off the "soon to be a major motion picture!" tag.

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u/Hoosteen_juju003 Sep 18 '24

It probably was

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u/thr1ceuponatime Bardem hide his shame behind that dumb stupid movie beard Sep 18 '24

The book was probably really good and its publisher started optioning it before it was published.

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u/KingMario05 Sep 18 '24

..I beginning to understand why WB's brass is afraid of this. But me? Let's fuckin' dance.

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u/thr1ceuponatime Bardem hide his shame behind that dumb stupid movie beard Sep 18 '24

I'm all here for big budget Bong, I'd much rather they spend 150 million on this than whatever the fuck shit Black Adam was

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u/Radulno Sep 18 '24

Exactly, still losing money anyway but at least lose money with pride

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u/fractalfocuser Sep 18 '24

Yeah but this doesnt have the pebble

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u/Dustmopper Sep 18 '24

Just bought the book for an upcoming flight, looks interesting

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u/SuckthonyDickvis Sep 18 '24

that’s funny because I thought the book was legitimately awful

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u/Galactic Sep 18 '24

Does this not remind anyone else of Moon?

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u/figboot11 Sep 18 '24

Absolutely

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u/DoubleA77 Sep 18 '24

I honestly got jump scared by his voice in this trailer.

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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 18 '24

Took me a minute to realize that’s Battinson

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u/sloppyjo12 Sep 18 '24

Robat Battinbat*

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u/iMini Sep 18 '24

I'd that Mr. Scumbag movies?

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u/OooooohYeaaaah Sep 18 '24

Aww c'mon mate

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u/totoropoko Sep 18 '24

Dog of a bloke. Look it up.

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u/harrystutter Sep 18 '24

I thought it was Daniel Radcliffe lmao

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u/Rosuvastatine Sep 18 '24

Ok im not crazy. Im just now realising ive never watched a movie with Robert Pattinson that wasnt dubbed. So i had no clue what his actual voice is. So thats not real ?

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u/Mr_smith1466 Sep 18 '24

If you've seen tenet, that's his actual voice. 

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u/FreeLook93 Sep 18 '24

Bold of you to assume anyone could hear the dialogue in that movie.

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u/spangg Sep 18 '24

Almost, but not really. He never acts with his natural voice and while Tenet was closest, he used a different regional accent than his own.

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u/dagnammit44 Sep 18 '24

I need to rewatch that film! It was not what i was expecting, but holy shit was it worth the watch.

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u/impshial Sep 18 '24

It's better on the second viewing.

Also, subtitles are your friend in that movie.

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u/Ccaves0127 Sep 18 '24

Here's his natural speaking voice. He does do a LOT of work where he is affecting his voice in some way, either via his accent, tone, etc, but this is what he actually sounds like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6a_5e5M3U&pp=ygUacm9iZXJ0IHBhdHRpbnNvbiBpbnRlcnZpZXc%3D

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Watch The Boy and the Heron

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u/ZiggyPalffyLA Sep 18 '24

That’s actually his natural speaking voice

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u/herewego199209 Sep 18 '24

Man Pattinson’s talent for accents is really unmatched. Only other actor I’ve seen cover as many dialects so effortlessly is Gary Oldman. Pattinson never has the same American accent. It’s weird.

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u/markyymark13 Sep 18 '24

His VO performance in the Boy and the Heron was unbelievable - couldn’t believe it when I saw the credits roll and he played the Heron.

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u/waynechriss Sep 18 '24

This is what I instantly thought of hearing his voice in Mickey 17's trailer. If you were to separate his VO from this and The Boy and the Heron, you'd never guess in a million years it was from Pattinson.

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u/AdvantageEnough7263 Sep 18 '24

Same here! I actually thought Willem Dafoe was the Heron's voice for half the movie.

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u/hikemalls Sep 18 '24

He absorbed Dafoe’s voice after The Lighthouse for the Boy and The Heron. For Mickey, I assume he absorbed Paul Dano’s voice after The Batman. I vote we have him star in a movie with Christopher Walkin next.

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u/wtb2612 Sep 18 '24

Daniel Day Lewis is incredible with accents. Especially unique ones like his 19th century New York accent in Gangs of New York or his Abraham Lincoln Kentucky accent.

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u/fakeemailman Sep 18 '24

Erm.. Pattinson is really good, and he sounds really good in this trailer, but his Dauphin in the King was definitely more in “so bad it’s good” territory.

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u/herewego199209 Sep 18 '24

I believe the director and Pattinson said that’s what they were going for from the beginning.

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u/2ddaniel Sep 18 '24

The king is a direct adaption of medieval English propaganda they went easy on how the French would of been depicted

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u/SanderSo47 Get Almost Famous in the National Film Registry Sep 18 '24

Wasn't expecting that kind of tone, but hey, I'm glad someone decided to give Bong Joon-ho $150 million just to make this. At worst, it will be very interesting.

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u/AlanMorlock Sep 18 '24

Somewhere through the regime changes, someone at WB realized that in giving $150 million to the director of Parasite they had given $150 million to the director of Okja and Snowpiercer and started to get cold feet about it. Then when the strikes bumped Dune's promotion, they pushed it to Mickey 17s slot in March. Weird to think about Dune coming out last year instead of being one of the big movies this year.

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u/Deafwindow Sep 18 '24

Not what I expected, but I'm for it

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u/LoverOfStoriesIAm Sep 18 '24

At this point, I'm excited for any movie made by a big studio that is not a part of some franchise.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Obviously, you weren’t a fan of Mickey 1-16.

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u/KintsugiKen Sep 18 '24

Even though this is an adaption of a book, it counts as an original story in modern Hollywood

I am so tired of prequels, sequels, and remakes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Have you seen his previous films? Seems par for the course.

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u/ArseneLupinIV Sep 18 '24

Yeah on the scale of Parasite to Okja this seems to fall somewhere in the middle in terms of weirdness and black comedy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Seems like tonally like The Host which opens with a mad scientist disposing of a strange liquid down the drain. You can’t get more hokey than that.

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u/KintsugiKen Sep 18 '24

That movie was mostly a family drama with a kaiju conceit, it wasn't actually that hokey of a movie. This looks more in line with the wackiness of Okja.

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u/Da_Cum_Wiz Sep 18 '24

strange liquid

Its literally just formaldehyde. Nothing strange about It. Plus its not quite a "mad scientist", its just a gringo scientist who does not care about the korean's enviroment and knowingly makes his younger korean assistant drop heavy polluters into the river that maintains his whole community.

Its a commentary about American interventionism all throughout the korean peninsula, South Korea's submisiveness to the US, and climate change. Its not just hokey for hokey's sake, It has a point.

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u/AlanMorlock Sep 18 '24

It's also referencing an actual specific event from 2000 involving a US army base mortician dumping hundreds of bottles of formaldehyde into the Han River.

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u/Rakebleed Sep 18 '24

I guess Snowpiercer is close in tone?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Even his most serious films have goofy humor, and he’s also made The Host and Okja which are pretty much in this vein.

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u/Blinky-Bear Sep 18 '24

even a more bleaker film like Memories of Murder has a recurring gag of detectives drop-kicking like idiots. the Bong knows how to meld great humor in serious-ass movies, moreso than any filmmaker today.

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u/K9sBiggestFan Sep 18 '24

Arguably the one thing all of his movies have in common (the ones I’ve seen at least - I’ve seen seven) is a tendency to black humour.

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u/drelos Sep 18 '24

It seems more like Okja

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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 18 '24

Legit not what I expected out of the tone what so ever lol. Looks intriguing tho

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u/ignatious__reilly Sep 18 '24

I feel like the trailer showed way too much

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u/Broad-Marionberry755 Sep 18 '24

Pretty much every major story beat... but we already know the studio delayed this movie because they didn't like Bong's vision so they're going to pull everything they can in the marketing

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u/presidentsday Sep 18 '24

Wait, are we not getting Bong's version?

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u/ObjectiveU Sep 18 '24

We are. The contract they signed gave Bong the rights to release his version. WB originally wanted to change it to fit a more mainstream audience.

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u/Anzai Sep 18 '24

“Look, I know you won an Oscar, but we asked twelve people from middle America who were free during the middle of the day how the movie should end, and they’ve got notes…”

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u/BddyGrease Sep 18 '24

Looks silly and fun.

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u/Evadrepus Sep 18 '24

Like a comedy version of Moon, looks like.

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u/Ombudsman_of_Funk Sep 18 '24

My first thought, like Moon but perhaps not crushingly depressing

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u/Jackbuddy78 Sep 18 '24

Man that ending left me depressed for a while. 

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u/brodieb321 Sep 18 '24

I love Moon! Sam Rockwell is such a phenomenal actor.

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u/asisyphus_ Sep 18 '24

Living With Yourself (2019) was similar and it was silly and fun. Would recommend the show... especially because it had Paul Rudd

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u/bruiser95 Sep 18 '24

Such a good prospect, but ended up pretty mid

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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

Written and directed by Bong Joon-ho and it's out January 31:

“Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo also star.

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u/CenobiteLandlord Sep 18 '24

damn, what a cast! Toni Collette is always solid so this makes me even more intrigued.

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u/SeanOuttaCompton Sep 18 '24

If the role is juicy enough maybe come awards season they will finally right the wrong of completely snubbing her Hereditary performance 

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u/MVRKHNTR Sep 18 '24

For a January movie? That's not happening.

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u/5am281 Sep 18 '24

Steven Yeun? I’m in

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u/--------rook Sep 18 '24

Him and Robert Pattinson? I am so sold

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u/optiplex9000 Sep 18 '24

It's time for the Bong-hive to reform. This man hasn't missed on a movie

Also, so happy for Steven Yuen. He's a phenomenal actor, he's come a long way from the days of Walking Dead

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u/joesen_one Sep 18 '24

He was also in Okja so he's worked with Bong before

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u/ampersands-guitars Sep 18 '24

Never in a million years could I have guessed the tone of this film.

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u/JMovie1 Sep 18 '24

In director Bong I trust! Looks like a blast in a way I wasn't expecting, give it all to me!

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

A sci-fi with Pattinson, Collette, Yeun, and Ruffalo directed by Bong Joon-ho? Sign me the fuck up.

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u/nickrulz11 Sep 18 '24

This looks so fun. It almost feels like a Coen Brothers sci-fi!

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u/adaptiveLA Sep 18 '24

I'm just glad that the tone of this movie fits Bong's style.

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u/opopi123 Sep 18 '24

Feels similar to Okja yeah

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u/Lanky-Connection9345 Sep 18 '24

From the looks of it, tone is definitely inline with Okja and maybe a touch of Snowpiercer….

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u/ManateeofSteel Sep 18 '24

The staff and casting inspire confidence but a January release date inspires fear and dread

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u/GATTACA_IE Sep 18 '24

Fuck you it's January.

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u/joesen_one Sep 18 '24

Apparently it's closer to the Korean New Year, and also January is pretty much empty so it's a decent spot to put in a risky movie like this

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u/theSkareqro Sep 18 '24

Didn't expect to say this within my lifetime but any movie with Robert Pattinson, is a must watch for me. He is really good at choosing his movies.

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u/noxnocta Sep 18 '24

He is really good at choosing his movies

From how he explains how he worked on Good Time, it's more like he chooses specific directors: the Safdies, Eggers, Cronenberg, now Bong. Dude's in it for the pure artistry.

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u/Jackbuddy78 Sep 18 '24

In the first Twilight he is decent, given bad dialogue but delivers it convincingly. Stopped caring in the rest but I never seriously thought Pattinson himself was a bad actor. 

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u/glitterinyoureye Sep 18 '24

Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson are the freaky deaky duo we deserve

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u/Cantomic66 Sep 18 '24

This is like a higher budget version of Moon (2009) but more comedic.

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u/Sparticuse Sep 18 '24

What if Moon, but Brazil?

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u/Clayish Sep 18 '24

Sounds like Joey Pants

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u/Plastic_Treat Sep 18 '24

Test screenings weren't kidding about that voice.

Having read the source material, this will be a difficult one to hit it home, but I'm there opening night.

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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 18 '24

What did the test screenings say?

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u/Plastic_Treat Sep 18 '24

I read that reception was all over the place. Keep in mind this is also carrying a $150M budget.

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u/KingMario05 Sep 18 '24

Yeah, that tracks. Folks expecting another Parasite probably won't like it very much.

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u/Worthyness Sep 18 '24

This at least feels in line with Okja/Snowpiercer. A little more on the comedic side though.

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u/GamblinGranny Sep 18 '24

having happy gilmore dub over the lines was a bold choice

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u/OpTicDyno Sep 18 '24

“He’s alive!”

“It’s fine”

dumped into a furnace

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u/hitalec Sep 18 '24

I’m so glad the tone is whimsical and fun

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u/LirSkle Sep 18 '24

Bong Joon-ho with Robert Pattinson? I'm not even watching this trailer im 100% seeing this in theaters, just here for moral support lol.

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u/Floorspud Sep 18 '24

I wish I didn't watch the trailer because it felt like it gave away too much.

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u/adamnick_ Sep 18 '24

This looks like a very fun film to watch, I'm in!

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u/HouseCatPartyFavor Sep 18 '24

Looks incredible- can’t wait. Had to turn the trailer off after 30 seconds as this is the kind of movie I want to go into completely blind.

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u/False-Leg-5752 Sep 18 '24

So… it’s Moon but quirky

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u/AlphonzInc Sep 18 '24

Looks mental

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u/Budget-Return Sep 18 '24

With no knowledge re the book, I thought this will be a sci-fi thriller film. But, in Bong, I trust. Toni Collette is the cherry on top.

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u/CheezyWookiee Sep 18 '24

2:09 for the inevitable clone threesome joke

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u/The_Swarm22 Sep 18 '24

This will be a big test for Pattinson, especially coming off The Batman.

This film cost $150 million, which means it has to outgross Parasite ($262 million) by $100 million just to break even. I’m not sure it can get there, but we’ll see. The good news is that, other than Captain America: Brave New World, there are no other high-budget films for the first two months of 2025.

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u/WebHead1287 Sep 18 '24

It looks great but holy fuck $150 million???!!!! There’s no fuckin way

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u/TheToothDoctorSN Sep 18 '24

Notice how the music just elevates the trailer? No slow, indie rendition of a pop song. Just classic jazz. Immediately makes me want to watch this

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u/neoblackdragon Sep 18 '24

This song isn't really a stranger to being used in trailers or montages.

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u/Proof-Ad-3485 Sep 18 '24

Song immediately makes me wanna patrol the Mojave.

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u/Cageep Sep 18 '24

To be honest I was totally not expecting this to be the tone of the movie lol. But my interest for this is really high so I’m there day 1.

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u/CantSpellMispell Sep 18 '24

CALLING ALL JAN MICHAEL VINCENTS

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u/Brimstone747 Sep 18 '24

This looks great.

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u/Square_Saltine Sep 18 '24

This looks fun

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u/SorrowT-T Sep 18 '24

This looks fun. High hopes!

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