US EditionMickey 17 Creepers Were Inspired by Sea Lions and Squid to Feel Believable
- The film Mickey 17 follows Kenneth Marshall leading a mission to colonize the icy planet Niflheim, encountering creatures known as Creepers.
- The Creepers, designed by Bong Joon Ho and Hee Chul Jang, come in various sizes and possess several pairs of legs.
- Visual effects supervisor Dan Glass emphasized the need for the Creepers to feel both horrific and believable in their movements.
- Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson as the 17th incarnation of Mickey Barnes, an expendable used for space missions, facing repeated deaths and resurrections.
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Mickey 17 Creepers Were Inspired by Sea Lions and Squid to Feel Believable
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Mickey 17,” currently playing in theaters. ‘Mickey 17’ follows a group of people on a space mission to colonize Niflheim, an ice-covered planet that’s home to a set of crawling, roly-poly type creatures that also, as one character notes, look like croissants. The leader of the mission, Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo), calls the inhabitants “Creepers.” When it came to designing them, visual eff…
How the Adorable Creepers Became the Driving Force of Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’
Production VFX supervisor Dan Glass explains the strange mixture of animal characteristics for the Creepers and how their animated performances are a reflection of the director's dry wit.
‘Mickey 17’ Review: As Bloated, Long, And Self-Indulgent As You Have Heard, And Maybe Worse
Robert Pattinson wears his special helmet for his shots in Mickey 17 (2025), Warner Bros. Pictures Mickey 17 is the latest sci-fi offering from Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho. It’s his biggest budget to date and his first (possibly last) collaboration with Robert Pattinson who is as close to a movie star as you’ll get in his generation. Between this pairing of talent and all the hype in the trades when its release date was set, I was curious. Robert…
Bong Joon-Ho Insists His Version of ‘Mickey 17’ Tested Higher, and NOT Warner Bros’ Cut — World of Reel
A recent report from Puck‘s Kim Masters described dire test-screening reactions for “Mickey 17” in 2023 and 2024 and how Bong dismissed Warners’ warning signs of the film “testing badly” by saying that his Oscar winner Parasite didn’t test well either. Meanwhile, Masters claimed that Warners had come up with their alternative cut of “Mickey 17” that tested 10 points higher than Bong’s. However, the director had a final cut clause in his contract…
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