I'm looking forward to seeing Mickey 17, the new film by Oscar-winning South Korean director Bong Joon Ho. (Genre fans will know Bong as the director of The Host and Snowpiercer. Everyone else will know him from Parasite.)
For readers unfamiliar with the film's premise, the titular Mickey is an Expendable, a human guinea pig who dies repeatedly as part of an interstellar colonization project, whose brain is recorded and imprinted onto a new copy of his body, death after death after death...until one time when the previous Mickey isn't actually dead yet. Hijinks ensue, as they say.
However, I was a little confused by the title, given that the script is based on a 2022 novel by Edward Ashton titled Mickey 7*.
When questioned on this unexpected alteration, Bong provided a very simple explanation:
I killed him 10 more times, that’s why we changed it.
Well, there you go, asked and answered. Moving on...
- Sid
* But not a lot confused - after all, Bladerunner is the title of a complete different novel than the one that the film is based on.
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