In Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson’s Mickey Barnes is cloned and recloned as a disposable human guinea pig, and though Bong Joon Ho’s latest isn’t an exact duplicate of his prior sci-fi work, it’s close enough in theme and tone to feel a bit stale.

Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho loves Robert Pattinson so much that he cast him as multiple versions of a sad sack in sci-fi movie "Mickey 17."

Bong is known for acclaimed films like “Snowpiercer,” “The Host,” “Okja” and “Barking Dogs Never Bite.” “Mickey 17” marks the director’s first film since 2019’s “Parasite,” which became the first non-English language movie to win best picture at the Oscars as well as the highest-grossing South Korean film in history.