Mickey 17 premiere London: Set up begins in Leicester Square for tonight's world premiere

Set up is underway in London for the world premiere of Mickey 17.

The sci-fi comedy movie, released in UK cinemas next month, will make its world debut at Cineworld in Leicester Square tonight.

Stars including Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, and Toni Collete are expected to walk the red carpet.

Because it’s the world premiere, we don’t know what other celebrities will attend. We’re sure the usual London glitterati will be there too.

We expect Robert will be joined on the red carpet by his wife Suki Waterhouse, with who he shares a nearly one-year-old daughter.

Photos from the scene show event staff setting up the red carpet in Leicester Square.

It features a long red carpet and large screens with projections of stars’ faces including Rob and Mark.

At the top end of the carpet, there is a billboard boasting a futuristic poster for Mickey 17.

Bright lights and press pens are currently being erected in Leicester Square for tonight’s premiere.

Staff in high-vis jackets are rallying around to get the venue looking spick and span for the star-studded event.

Tonight’s premiere marks a homecoming for Londoner R-Patz, who was born and raised in Barnes.

Pattinson started acting at age 15 in a London theatre club. He made early screen appearances in supporting roles, including in Vanity Fair, and played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

What is Mickey 17 about?

Wanting to get off of Earth, the financially destitute Mickey Barnes signs up to be an "expendable", a disposable clone worker, on the human colony Niflheim.

As an expendable, Mickey undertakes several dangerous assignments he is not expected to survive, with a new body being regenerated each time he dies. After one of his clones, "Mickey 17", is incorrectly assumed dead, both the previous and current version, known as Mickey 18, have to grapple with the nature of being expendables and the brutal government of the colony.

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