The actor plays a repeatedly reconstituted “expendable” in this dark comedy set in a nascent ice planet colony, also starring Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette and Mark Ruffalo.

Ylfa's hunt for a delicious sauce is just another representation of the 'ruling' class' disregard for Mickey and every other person on the ship. This culminates when the Creepers swarm around the ship threatening to kill the humans. Even in that moment, Ylfa is fixated on a new recipe, made from the aliens' tails.

The science-fiction comedy, written and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker, has finally landed in cinemas. Its plot follows Mickey (played by Robert Pattinson), a man who flees his debt on Earth by joining a mission to colonise the ice planet Niflheim.

Starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Steven Yeun, Mickey 17 is a weird, wacky but ultimately satisfying dystopian romp.

Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson) just won’t die — which is precisely what he’s supposed to do. As the expendable on an outer space expedition to colonize the new planet Nilfheim in 2054, Mickey’s mission as a human lab rat and risk-taker is to die and die again,