So how, exactly, do you make a new human? No, sicko. We don’t mean that. We mean in the context of Bong Joon-ho’s latest, Mickey 17. In the film, Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, a human “expendable” who is brought back to life, over and over, after he dies. How does that work? A new book shows you, in more ways than one.

South Korean director Bong Joon Ho's villain in "Mickey 17", a demagogic politician played by Mark Ruffalo, was based on past dictators, but might seem familiar to viewers because "history always repeats itself,