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Weinstein Co. to Release Bong Joon-ho's Post-Apoc 'Snow Piercer'

by Alex Billington
November 9, 2012
Source: Deadline

Some good news for fans of South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (of Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother). The Weinstein Company has preemptively acquired distribution rights for Bong's new film Snow Piercer, his English-language debut adapting the French graphic novel Transperceneige. This is a project we've been following closely for over three years, and it's now ready to be finished and released after filming this year. Chris Evans stars in the ensemble movie set entirely on a train in the "not too distant future where a new Ice Age has wiped out most of the human race." This is one of my most anticipated films of next year.

The cast for Snow Piercer includes Chris Evans along with Ed Harris, Jamie Bell, Alison Pill, John Hurt, Oscar winners Tilda Swinton and Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, Luke Pasqualino and Kang-ho Song as passengers on the train. Joon-ho describes Snow Piercer as a post-apocalyptic movie about a few survivors who end up on a massive train that is divided by economic classes. "With a revolt brewing onboard, the Snow Piercer is a train of Earth's lone survivors that travels around the cold world." I have been predicting since last year that Snow Piercer will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where Bong Joon-ho is a regular, and I expect to see it there next summer. As for The Weinstein Company's release plans, "a wide Summer 2013 release looks likely." This is one project we're keeping a very close watch on.

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http://www.facebook.com/matt.peloquin.14 Matt Peloquin

So this is his English language debut?
- http://www.firstshowing.net/ Alex Billington
  
  Yep, it definitely is. I'm excited for it, should be awesome. I love Bong Joon-ho! One of my favorite filmmakers working today.
  - http://www.facebook.com/matt.peloquin.14 Matt Peloquin
    
    Some huge names and I love "isolation films" because they show an actors true abilities. I can't wait to see what an entire film on an ice train looks like.
http://www.facebook.com/Lincolnasmith Lincoln Smith

Memories of Murder was excellent, as was The Host. Instant classics both, and the parallels between MoM and Zodiac are kind of hilarious, like David Fincher was drunk off it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7YGEVuJ4mM Carpola

Already some good actors there, which is bingo. Going to look out the book noo.