Famous South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho, whose 2019’s satirical thriller Parasite swept the Oscars in February 2020, is set to direct Robert Pattinson in a sci-fi adaptation of Edward Ashton’s forthcoming novel ‘Mickey7’.
The movie will be made by Warner Bros, the studio to which Pattinson is also contracted for The Batman, in which he plays the lead role, due for release in March.
According to St Martin Press, Ashton’s novel, which is published in February, concerns an expendable employee of a firm sent to colonise an ice world called Niflheim. Once there, he attempts to stop his replacement clone, dubbed Mickey 8, from taking his place.
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Bong is also working with WarnerMedia on an HBO limited series based on Parasite. This is being shown by Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay. Parasite became the highest-grossing South Korean movie ever, as well as the first non-English language movie to win the best picture at the Oscars.
Bong’s previous films include Snowpiercer, The Host, Okja and Barking Dogs Never Bite. On the other hand, Pattinson, who made his name in the Twilight movies, has won plaudits for his work on less mainstream movies such as ‘The Lighthouse’.
