Zodiac with David Fincher and Bong Joon Ho

Bong Joon Ho’s quirky sci-fi comedy, based on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7 (2022), showcases a star ensemble and lavish production design. The film follows the exceptional journey of Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattison), naive and malleable, who volunteers to become an “Expendable” stuck in a loop of permanent death and rebirth, a clone designed to help fulfill an ambitious project led by an evil politician and his wife, Kenneth and Ylfa (Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette). Stunning art direction and crisp cinematography elevate an intriguing story marked by Bong’s signature artistry—masterful execution of continuous tonal shifts and genre bending—as he underscores the sociopolitical issues often found in his work.