"Mickey 17" — Read, Study, & Download The Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho
What If Dying Was Just Part of the Job?
"Mickey 17" is a sci-fi comedy that treats death not as tragedy, but as paperwork. In Bong Joon-ho’s absurd, razor-sharp screenplay, a disposable employee on a deep-space colony is repeatedly killed and reprinted for dangerous labor... until one version accidentally survives.
This isn’t a story about cloning. It’s about labor, identity, replaceability, and how capitalism metabolizes human life. Funny, unsettling, and philosophically vicious, Mickey 17 asks what happens when a person becomes a resource, and what it means to be “you” when you’re endlessly reproducible.
It’s a farce about the future that feels uncomfortably close to the present.
"Mickey 17" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Writing Comedy About the Meaning of Existence
The "Mickey 17" screenplay is a masterclass in using genre to smuggle in philosophy. The screenplay combines slapstick absurdity with existential dread, building a world where death is mundane and identity is negotiable.
For screenwriters, this script offers powerful lessons in satire as structure, tonal balancing, allegorical sci-fi, and how comedy can sharpen, not soften, moral critique.
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Mickey 17 (2025) — Classroom Study
"Mickey 17" is a story about what happens when mortality becomes a feature instead of a flaw.
The central premise, that a worker can be endlessly reprinted after death, allows the screenplay to interrogate how systems treat people as replaceable units rather than as individuals. The horror isn’t the cloning. It’s the normalization of it.
This script teaches how speculative fiction can function as moral laboratory. It uses absurdity to ask deeply serious questions about identity, labor, memory, consciousness, and what gives a life meaning when it can be rebooted. For writers, it’s a case study in how to embed philosophy inside comedy without becoming preachy.
- What makes someone “the same person”?
- Is continuity of memory enough?
- Labor as disposability
- When comedy becomes cruel
- Cloning as metaphor, not tech
- Bureaucracy as violence
- Sci-fi as moral sandbox
- Identity without uniqueness
"Mickey 17" One Sheet & Script Intel
During a human expedition to colonize space, Mickey 17, a so-called "expendable" employee, is sent to explore an ice planet. Warner Bros.
| Type | ... |
FYC
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| Version | ... | v4.0English |
| Date | ... | 07.26.2022 |
| Pages | ... | 136 |
| Genres | ... | Adventure Comedy Fantasy |
| Screenplay | ... | Bong Joon Ho |
| IMDb ID | ... | 12299608 |
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