Bong Joon Ho explains how Mark Ruffalo's character in Mickey 17 was not based on one specific dictator, but rather multiple inspirations.

Director Bong Joon Ho tells IndieWire about the origins of the failed politician Kenneth Marshall in 'Mickey 17' and why he cast Mark Ruffalo.

Bong has used his darkly comedic edge to create hilariously strange authority figures in his English-language films.

Ruffalo’s villain is a projection of the world's "most stressful political leader," observes the filmmaker.Bong Joon Ho is well aware that audiences see Donald Trump in Kenneth Marshall, the egomaniacal politician played by a delightfully absurd Mark Ruffalo in his new sci-fi comedy,

Mickey 17is the weird and wacky sort of science fiction film that only two people could imagine and then actualize into something even remotely resembling a comedy; Edward Ashton, author of the Mickey 7 novels,

After six years and multiple delays, Oscar winning director and Korean film trailblazer Bong Joon-ho is finally back to big screens globally with his Mickey 17, a dystopian sci-fi adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel,