Mickey 17(2025)

In the near future, people have left Earth to colonize another planet, Niflheim. Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) and his friend Timo (Steven Yeun) join the colony’s crew to escape the wrath of a loan shark. The colony is run by a politician named Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his wife Ylfa (Toni Collette). Mickey signs himself up to be an Expendable, which puts him up to dangerous and lethal tasks that would kill him and then allow the scientists to reprint multiples clones of him when he keeps dying. During his time in the colony, Mickey meets and falls with an agent named Nasha Barridge (Naomi Ackie).

During one expedition in Niflheim, Mickey 17 is tasked with collecting a sample of a creature called a Creeper. The Creepers turn out to be harmless and even save Mickey from dying in the icy crevasse. However, when he returns to the colony, he finds that Mickey 18 has already been printed in anticipation of Mickey 17’s death. This causes a problem since doubles are forbidden and would mean the end of the cloning process for the person who is copied. They are discovered after Mickey 18 tries to kill Marshall, leading to them and Nasha getting captured.

After Nasha learns that the Creepers are not dangerous, she and the Mickeys break out and try to tell the Marshalls, but they do not listen to her. Instead, Marshall has the Mickeys go out into the snowy fields to kill Creepers since the whole group has come to the surface after one baby Creeper is killed, and another is captured. Mickey 17 communicates with the Mother through a translator, and she tells him that they want the surviving baby and for one human to die in place of the baby that was killed. Marshall attempts to spread a nerve gas to kill all the Creepers, but not before trying to kill the Mother himself. Mickey 18 attacks Marshall and uses Marshall’s detonator to set off an explosive on 18’s body, killing both of them.

Six months later, the Expendable program is shut down, and Nasha is put in power since Ylfa killed herself after being taken to a psych ward following her husband’s death. Mickey continues to work with the Creepers, maintain his relationship with Nasha, and is given the opportunity to destroy the clone printer.