Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho says his new film Mickey 17 is not parodying Donald Trump with its villain played by Mark Ruffalo, but several critics say the allusions to the U.S. president are too numerous and too specific to deny.
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In Mickey 17, Bong makes his English-language film debut directing a sci-fi action comedy starring Robert Pattinson as a man who signs up to do dangerous, inevitably fatal work on a space colony — always getting revived as a fresh clone with all his memories intact.
The movie, out this weekend, finds its villain in Kenneth Marshall, a megalomaniac in charge of the space colony, and more than a few viewers have asked the director if President Donald Trump was an inspiration for the
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