HBO Max is bringing one of the most original movies of 2025 to your living room this month.
Mickey 17, the dark sci-fi comedy starring Robert Pattinson, will make its global streaming debut on HBO Max on May 23, Warner Bros. announced Friday. The film will debut on HBO linear at 7:40 p.m. ET on May 24.
Mickey 17, which adapts Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7, was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning 2019 film Parasite. The film follows an unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Pattinson), who 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.”
Set in the year 2054, Mickey is sent on an expedition to colonize space as a so-called “Expendable” — a disposable worker who is cloned every time he dies. But after two Mickeys unexpectedly
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