16 years before ‘Mickey 17”s mission to the stars, 2009’s ‘Moon’ was already sending in the clones

Sam Rockwell in Moon (2009)

“Mickey 17” opened at the weekend and there’s something uncannily familiar about its premise. While nobody could describe director Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Parasite” as a clone of the low-fi sci-fi classic “Moon”, both films riff on the same basic idea: a human meeting an exact duplicate of themselves. Spoilers ahead for Moon … Read more