Mickey 17, a new sci-fi comedy starring Robert Pattinson from Oscar-winning Parasite director Bong Joon Ho, is new in theaters. Will you want to stick around for the end credits for any additional scenes?
Rated R. Mickey 17 opens in theaters nationwide on Friday. Set in 2054, Mickey 17 stars Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, a failed business owner who signs up for a colonization program in space in order to escape a deadly loan shark.
Since Mickey doesn’t have any meaningful skills to contribute to the program — where a large group of people with various skills looks to colonize an ice planet with a seemingly liveable environment — he volunteers to become the group’s sole “expendable.”
As an expendable — who is a crash-test dummy of sorts used to examine the air and surface of the earthlings’ new planet — Mickey is purposely put in perilous situations where death surely awaits him. When the inevitable happens, new clones of Mickey are simply printed up and all his memories are restored one by one.
However, when the 17th version of Mickey — who appropriately goes by the name Mickey 17 – is presumed dead after encountering the ice planet’s alien inhabitants, Mickey 18 (Pattinson) is printed up to take his. That’s a huge problem, though, since the colony has strict laws against duplicate clones called “multiples” because of the danger they pose to society.
Mickey 17 also stars Steven Yeun, Anamaria Vartolomei, Cameron Britton, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette.
Note: The next section includes mild spoilers about “Mickey 17.”
What Happens During The End Credits Of ‘Mickey 17’?
Generally, end credits scenes and/or post-credits scenes serve one of two purposes. Either they tie up loose ends from a scene earlier in the film or tease the potential for a sequel.
As such, Mickey 17 does not have an end credits or post-credits scene. The opportunity to keep the story going is certainly there, though, given the narrative of the film and the ability the colony has to “print up” duplicates of characters.
So, even while Mickey 17 has a definitive ending, Bong Joon Ho and his fellow creatives could certainly find a way to recalibrate the plot to allow for another Mickey Barnes adventure.
The most obvious reason to bring Pattinson and Mickey back for a sequel would be a huge reception of Mickey 17 at the domestic and worldwide box office. If initial projections for the film’s box office give any indication, the idea of a sequel seems to be a non-starter.
According to Variety, Mickey 17 is projected to earn $18 million to $20 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office from 3,770 theaters domestically and $20 million to $25 million from 66 international locations.
However, a $40 million to $45 million gross is a tepid start considering the production budget of Mickey 17, per Variety, was $118 million before prints and advertising.
Factoring in various expenses (the film’s prints and advertising budget and the sum paid to theater owners for ticket sales, for example), Variety estimates that Mickey 17 will need to earn somewhere around $275 million to $300 million at the worldwide box office for the film to break even.
If that’s the case Mickey 17 is going to have to develop some strong legs to make its money back after its opening weekend.
Mickey 17 opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.
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