By means of PTI
LOS ANGELES: Just about two years after the record-breaking good fortune of “Parasite”, Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho turns out to have discovered his subsequent movie which is anticipated to function “The Batman” celebrity Robert Pattinson.
Assets instructed Closing date that Bong will write and direct an untitled movie according to Edward Ashton’s upcoming novel “Mickey7” for studio Warner Bros.
The director may also again the undertaking by way of his manufacturing banner Offscreen along Dooho Choi for Kate Side road Image Corporate and Plan B.
The unconventional, to be printed in 2022 by way of Macmillan’s imprint St Martin, follows Mickey7, who’s an Expendable: a disposable worker on a human expedition despatched to colonise the ice global Niflheim.
“Each time there is a venture that is too bad — even suicidal — the staff turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a brand new frame is regenerated with maximum of his recollections intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the phrases of his deal and why it used to be the one colonial place unfilled when he took it,” reads the synopsis of the ebook.
Whilst the movie shall be impressed by way of the radical, assets mentioned that given Bong’s taste of operating with diversifications, his model may well be other from the supply subject material.
His 2013 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie “Snowpiercer” used to be according to the French graphic local weather fiction novel “Le Transperceneige” by way of Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.
In keeping with Closing date, writer Ashton introduced the manuscript for the unpublished ebook to Bong against the top of 2021.
The acclaimed filmmaker grew within the tale and changed into loosely connected to the undertaking past due closing 12 months.
It’s mentioned Bong met one of the vital maximum promising Hollywood stars prior to he zeroed in on Pattinson after assembly him.
“Parasite” swept the 2019 Oscars, together with the most efficient image and highest director wins, a primary for a Korean-language movie.
Following an HBO restricted sequence according to the movie within the works with Bong government generating along Adam McKay, this movie would be the South Korean filmmaker’s 2d collaboration with WarnerMedia.
Pattinson’s subsequent “The Batman” is a Warner Bros movie, which is slated to be launched on March 4.
Peter Dodd is overseeing for the studio.
