Bong Joon-ho Discusses ‘Mickey17’ and Upcoming Animated Film
Mar 20, 2025
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Director Bong Joon-ho, who released 'Mickey 17' as a new work after 'Parasite', and 'Arena Homme Plus' met and talked. He heard what he was thinking about making his eighth feature film into a Hollywood blockbuster, and he also talked about how he built his own movie world differently from the original.
As for Mickey characters that are different from the original "I thought Mickey should be 'working class' from the beginning. I'm in an extreme situation as an industrial accident worker, and I wanted to make him from a back alley or a bottom rather than an intellectual background" he replied. Also known as Bong Joon-ho's first full-length animated feature film, "Gazae has been set. It's 'The Valley The Valley'. Now, on most papers, we're communicating under this title ," he said for the first time.
Director Bong Joon-ho, who unveiled Mickey 17, is currently working on his ninth film The Valley (tentative), and aims to complete it in 2026 and release it worldwide in 2027. Bong Joon-ho's interview, which attracts the attention of moviegoers around the world, will be available in the April issue of Arena Homme Plus.
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