
Based on the 2022 sci-fi novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, “Mickey 17” follows the masochistic misadventures of Pattinson’s titular character. He is an “Expendable” on a faraway ice planet 30 years in the future. The hapless Mickey has signed up (without actually reading the fine print) to die repeatedly, only to be reprinted in his own body with his own memories. His job is to run interference for the colonizers of this brave new world, whether it’s breathing potentially toxic air or testing experimental vaccines. Whatever violent end he meets, he figures it’s better than the threats that were in store for him from gangsters back on Earth. The montage of him dying an
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