Joon-ho Bong’s South Korea creature feature THE HOST is one of my all-time favourite foreign language films so I’m eager to see what’s in store for his all-star English language debut, SNOWPIERCER. The epic cast is made up of a host of Hollywood rising talent, genuine acting legends and acclaimed international superstars, who’ll portray the surviving members of the human race who must live together on an wrecked underground train and are forced to make their way through a new ice age as a class struggle escalates into a frosty rebellion in this bleak futuristic vision.
SNOWPIERCER is still awaiting a release date but is expected around August. It stars Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Octavia Spencer, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Ewen Bremner, Ko Ah Sung and Alison Pill. Check out the new set of character posters just below the following official plot synopsis. You can also find the first featurette here.
Snowpiercer is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews. The remaining populace aboard the train have been divided into strict social classes with the poorest at the back of the train and high society at the front. A revolution begins at the back that will not be deterred until it reaches the very front.
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