Mickey7, on Audible the audiobook that inspired the film with Robert Pattinson

The story of Mickey Barnes, a “sacrificable” employed in the colonization of the hostile Niflheim planet, offers a privileged perspective on these issues. Mickey, destined to die and repeatedly reborn to carry on the mission, confronts his mortality and, above all, with the duplication of himself in the encounter with Mickey8. This triggering event questioned not only its individual identity, but also the very legitimacy of the replication process and its impact on the colonial mission. The audiobook, through Crescentini’s voice, explores the psychological and philosophical implications of this existential condition. The narrative, as the voice actor himself points out, focuses on the subtle differentiation between the two clones, while maintaining an empathic link with both. The survival of the human colony on Niflheim, threatened by the extreme environmental conditions and by the growing curiosity of indigenous creatures, therefore becomes secondary compared to the survival of Mickey’s identity, put to the test by its own replicability.