Warner Bros shared first-look footage for filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

Robert Pattinson stars alongside Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie in Mickey 17, a science fiction thriller based on a 2022 novel, Mickey 7.

Bong discussed how it is changed from the novel it’s based on and how it is a “human” story. Instead of Mickey 7, “…we made it Mickey 17. The number is the number of times he dies. I kill him 10 times more. It’s a story of a simple man. It’s a sci-fi movie. It’s hard to say sci-fi — it’s a human story.” He also goes on to explain that Robert Pattinson was cast for the role because “he has a crazy thing in his eyes.”

According to footage description from Deadline, “the first look got rousing applause and was rather comical, set to the Dean Martin tune “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?” Pattinson’s character is an expendable, and his job is to die several times through various experiments on a ship deep in space. We literally see him floating in an astronaut suit — dead. At one point, Pattinson encounters a twin of himself, who also tries to kill him.”

Pattinson explains more about his role in the film, and how they are “very fun characters. Mickey 17 has the lowest expectations of his life, and the world keeps pushing him. … 18 comes along and he has frontal lobe damage, and libido damage. He has no idea how 17 has been surviving. It’s like playing a brother out of control.”

We also now know that Steven Yeun is playing “another crazy guy in the movie,” according to Bong. Naomi Ackie is set to play one of the Mickey GFs.

Mickey 17 is set to release January 31, 2025.