Warners Undates ‘Mickey 17’, Bumps ‘Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire’ Up On Calendar

Warner Bros has pulled Bong Joon-ho’s anticipated sci-fi pic Mickey 17 from its release calendar, bumping up Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire from April 12th to March 29th, 2024, when it will debut in IMAX.

We’re told that the Mickey 17 move was due to shifts in production amidst last year’s strikes, and that a new date will be coming relatively soon. Godzilla‘s move to the weekend previously inhabited by that title sees it set to open with very little competition, a re-release of Alice Rorhwacher’s La Chimera being the only other plan, exhibition-wise, for that frame.

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Marking Director Bong’s follow-up to Oscar-winning smash Parasite, Mickey17 adapts the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The book follows Mickey7, who is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous —even suicidal — the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.

Cast for the highly anticipated feature includes Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, recent Golden Globe winner Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Producers of the project are Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joon-Ho, and Dooho Choi.

The latest installment in Warners/Legendary’s Monsterverse film franchise Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire follows up Godzilla vs. Kong, which was released to great success in 2021, becoming just the second film of the Covid era to pass $100M domestic and going on to gross over $468 million worldwide. Plot details are under wraps, but the cast includes Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Kaylee Hottle, and Daniel Stevens. Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric McLeod, Brian Rogers, and Thomas Tull served as the film’s producers.

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