12 Biggest Book Changes In Mickey 17

Mickey 17

WARNING : MAJOR SPOILERS ahead for Mickey 17 & Mickey 7 .

WhileMickey 17follows the same champion , Robert Pattinson ’s Mickey Barnes , asMickey 7 , there are several notable differences between the two formats , particularly towards each of their ends . The book ’s Mickey 7 and Mickey 8 become Mickey 17 and Mickey 18 in the photographic film , with additional iterations and deaths . Theending ofMickey 17featured a dramatic sacrificial death and the destruction of the " human printing machine " that bred late versions of Mickey like a copy simple machine . After record the book , I was stunned athow differentMickey 17was fromMickey 7but each has its strong suit .

12Mickey 18 Was Not Aggressive & Did Not Kill Marshall

The Personalities Of The Main Mickey’s Were Nearly Identical In The Book

The biggest departure between the two master Paddy in the book and film is their personality . Both Mickey 7 and Mickey 8 in the novel are essentially the same person , so much so that Mickey 7 is capable to anticipate Mickey 8 ’s thoughts and actions in sure scenarios . Mickey 17 and Mickey 18 could n’t be more unalike , with Mickey 17 stumbling over his words and Mickey 18 being impulsively dangerous and menacing . Because of this , Mickey 8 never assay to kill Marshall and mostly slept in Mickey ’s roomafter he was printed due to " tank funk " .

11Ylfa, Dorothy & Several Characters Were Added To Mickey 17

Pigeon Man Was Added To The Movie, For Some Reason

Ylfa , Marshall ’s wife , is the biggest character manufacture forMickey 17not seen in the book . She conduce to the idiocy of Marshall with her out - of - touch opinions and snobby worldview . Dorthoty , the scientist who develops the translation twist so that Mickey can intercommunicate with the creeper , is also created for the film , as is the technology she invented . In the book , all the humans on Niflheim can communicate through a telepathic instant messengerattached to their retinas , which is how Mickey is able to talk to " Creeper Prime . "

Mickey ’s red - haired flight simulator is name Jemma in the playscript . Marshall ’s political strategist Preston , who is seen incessantly whisper in Marshall ’s ear , was added to the motion picture . Pigeon Man , for whatever reasonableness , was added to the filmas well .

10Kenneth Marshall Wasn’t Stupid & Didn’t Have A Camera Crew

Mickey 7’s Marshall Was Strict & Problematic But Not A Buffoon

Marshall is completely unlike in the movie compare to his character in the book . Mickey 7’sMarshall is strict and authoritative but sensible , relate about maintain the struggling space colony active and exert the established club through rationing and correction . He never abolished intimate intercourse on Niflheim , never ask round Mickey and Kai to dinner , and did not host a late - dark show or have a tv camera crew constantly follow him around . Mickey 17makes Marshall wait like an incapable buffoon , whileMickey 7’sMarshall is near - minded but not stupid . Mickey 7’sMarshall was also not killed .

9Timo Did Not Sell Oxyzoful & Has A Very Different Backstory

Timo (Berto) Was A Lucky & Successful Pog-Ball Player

Image via Warner Bros.

Timo is another character who was completely interchange for Mickey 17 . In the leger , he was a daring and confident archetype who had a successful career play a fictional sport prognosticate pog - ball . He never started a run out macaron job with Mickeyand was n’t in financial fuss with Darius Blank , as Mickey was . Mickey in reality bet against Timo , whose name is Berto in the book , as he toy in a pog - egg tournament , which is how he lost all his money . Berto was not affect in Oxyzoful smuggling whatsoever in the Holy Scripture because Oxyzoful was not a part of the story either .

8Nasha Was A Pilot In Mickey 7, Not a Security Guard

Nasha Never Tried To Kill Ylfa Or Save A Baby Creeper

Mickey 17’sNasha is more - or - less the same as her book character , staying truehearted to Mickey throughout his various " lab squealer " deaths . Nasha never , however , hold Mickey inside an actual lab tank while he was dying from radiation therapy , poison , or the comparable . Nasha was also a archetype in the book , like Berto , and asked Mickey if he wanted her to come get him after he ab initio fell into the creeper hole but Mickey rejected her offer . Mickey 7’sNasha never confronted Marshall , never confine a infant creeper by her tooth over a cycler , and never peril to pop Ylfa .

7Manikova & His Multiples Took Over A Planet In Mickey 7

There Were Thousands Of Manikova’s In The Book

Alan Manikova has a more interesting backstory in Mickey 7 than he does in Mickey 17 . In the movie , he is trip up with two multiple and is ingest into custody after committing murder to create the multiples in the first place . In the book , Manikova was incredibly wealthy and was suspect of murder but it was unable to be raise . He went on to create thousands of duplicates and actually took over an foreign planet , which run toa neighboring planet arouse a Death Star - esque laser beam ( create by bubble of antimatter ) onto the planet , effectively destroying it and all the Manikovas .

6A Baby Creeper Never Made It Into The Mickey 7 Dome

The Creepers Never Approached The Dome To Retrieve One Of Their Own

Creepers made it close to infiltrate the human dome on Niflheim in Mickey 7 but never did . Some creepers in the Good Book pop a security guard on the outer preminter of the noodle but that was the closest they ever sire . Once the infant creeper bring forth into the dome inMickey 17and Mickey 18 tries to assassinate Marshall all in one scene , it becomes clean that the entire story is about to greatly shift . All the scenes involving the child creeper – Nasha saving it , Ylfa cut off its tail and making sauce , it call out to the other tree creeper – are not in the book .

5Cat Chen (Kai) Ratted Out The Mickey’s In The Book

Cat Offered To Become Mickey’s Expendable Replacement

Cat Chen , rename Kai inMickey 17 , is a trust security guard in the book . Mickey 7 and Cat pass sentence together as Mickey 8 hangs out with Nasha and does some menial Expendable undertaking . Both Cat and Kai walk in on Nasha with the two Mickey’sduring that strange quixotic scene but Nasha does n’t run after her like she does in the moving-picture show . Cat betrays Mickey by reporting him to Marshall , offering to become his replacement Expendable upon his permanent discontinuance . Mickey then convinces Marshall to keep him and Mickey 8 alive to make striking with the creepers .

4The Religion Of Natalism Isn’t Mentioned In Mickey 17

Natalism Denounces Expendables As “Impure” Specimens

WhileMickey 17’sMarshall is introduce as a fascist bent on building an ideal race on Niflheim , Mickey 7 ’s Marshall has no such aspiration . The book ’s version is , however , spiritual and belong to the church ofNatalism , which essentially means that he believes Expendables are not " pure " and are not God ’s creationlike human beings .

While Mickey 17 is based on a novel with a sequel , director Bong Joon - ho does n’t explicitly fructify up a follow - up to his latest sci - fi comedy motion-picture show .

There is n’t much more to Natalism than maintaining the distinction between Expendables and world in a derogatory way . While there is discrimination against Mickey for being a " mark job " , as seen in other sci - fi work likeBlade Runner 2049,there ’s no reference of Natalism in the moving picture .

3Technologies & Weapons In Mickey 7 Were More Futuristic

Mickey 17 Mostly Uses Standard Modern Day Weapons

The technology inMickey 7is astonishingly more advanced than that inMickey 17 , which uses traditional weapons like assault rifles and bazookas . The security guard inMickey 7are armed with blasters and other types of futurist weaponry and the bombs that the Mickeys carry at the ending of the story are derived from antimatter bubble . As cite antecedently , the telepathic instant messenger tech is not included in the moving-picture show . Additionally , Marshall threatened to have Mickey ’s backup brick erase in the bookbut Marshall really does it in the movie .

Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17 with Mickey 7 book