MICKEY 17 is the story of a man on a crazy adventure. The film is set in the future. Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) starts a macron eatery by taking a huge loan. The business fails and the lender, Darius Blank (Ian Hanmore) is behind his life and that of his... business partner Timo (Steven Yeun). They decide to leave the Earth and enlist in ultra-rich businessman Kenneth Marshall's (Mark Ruffalo) space program. Mickey unknowingly signs up for being an ‘Expandable’, which involves taking a ‘backup’ of your body and memories and getting into dangerous and fatal tasks. The idea is that even if Mickey dies, Kenneth Marshall's team of scientists can ‘reprint’ him and once again send him on life-threatening missions. Mickey and others, including Kenneth and his wife Ylfa (Toni Collette), are flown to Nilfheim, a planet that Kenneth wants to colonize. Mickey dies 16 times on Nilfheim and while he's on the way. Mickey 17 is one day sent outside the space shuttle in Nilfheim to catch a ‘creeper’, an animal that inhabits the planet. Kenneth's team wants to study the animals and possibly exterminate them as they are seen as a threat. Mickey falls into a gorge full of creepers and is believed to be dead. Mickey, however, survives and goes back to the space shuttle. Meanwhile, assuming that Mickey 17 is dead, Kenneth's team ‘prints’ his replacement, Mickey 18. Mickey 17 goes back to the shuttle and comes face to face with his clone, leading to madness. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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