Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 is about a man who signs on to a colony expedition

Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2020 , becoming the first non-English -language film to do so.

The antagonist in the story, Kenneth Marshall ( Mark Ruffalo ) is the leader of this expedition, a smarmy, evil ex-politician with veneers, a TV show, and a hovering wife.

Bong says he swears he isn’t a Trump analog.

Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey 7 is much less of a hapless fool than Pattinson 's Mickey 17 .

He describes himself as “a historian”—an occupation that doesn’t pay him and that gets met with scorn when he goes to sign up to be an Expendable .

In the novel, the civilization Mickey is trying to escape is not Earth but Midgard .

In adapting Mickey 7 , Bong has made it into a real Bong movie.

The movie is set in a hermetic, oppressive dystopia, and a vid-drama villain.

If Kamala Harris had won in November , we’d be reading this movie a lot differently.