Mickey 17 with Bong Joon Ho and Ava DuVernay (Ep. 535)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Director Bong Joon Ho, accompanied by his translator Sharon Choi, discusses his new film, Mickey 17, with fellow Director Ava DuVernay in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses how his storyboarding process covered every shot, how he approached having a love story for the first time, and the resonance of the film’s social themes with worldwide audiences. The film tells the story of Mickey Barnes, an everyman hired by a tyrannical government to work as an “expendable” - a human clone willing to die for one dangerous mission after another. Repeatedly meeting his end for the advancement of space exploration, the 17th Mickey survives a seemingly fatal expedition and comes face to face with a new problem: Mickey 18. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2025/May2025/Mickey17_QnA_0325

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0:00.0	And Rob is such a smart actor and he's so detailed in his preparations.
0:05.1	When I first met him in L.A., in some cafeteria,
0:09.8	anyway,
0:10.4	I'd just, just 17 is going to be able to get into the cafe, kind of hunched,
0:18.0	he walked in, into the cafe kind of huncheded and I just immediately knew he was 17 Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:48.7	In this episode, a man undertakes dangerous space colonization missions by being endlessly cloned,
0:54.7	and director Bangjun Ho's science fiction dark comedy, Mickey 17.
1:00.0	The film tells the story of Mickey Barnes,
1:02.7	and every man hired by a tyrannical government to work as an expendable,
1:06.5	a human clone willing to die for one dangerous mission after another.
1:14.6	Repeatedly meeting his end for the advancement of space exploration,
1:18.1	the 17th Mickey survives a seemingly fatal expedition and comes face to face with a new problem.
1:21.2	Mickey 18.
1:23.8	In addition to Mickey 17,
1:26.3	bongs of the directorial credits include the feature films,
1:29.3	Okja, Snowpiercer, Mother, The Host, Memories of Murder, and Barking Dogs Never Bite.
1:36.3	He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2019's Parasite.
1:56.7	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Bong, accompanied by his translator Sharon Choi, spoke with director Ava DuVernay about filming Mickey 17.
2:00.3	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
2:07.2	Good evening.
2:09.4	Good evening.
2:11.3	Thank you.
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