‘Snowpiercer’ gathers speed with TNT’s backing
SEOUL: The TV adaptation of train-bound struggle ‘Snowpiercer' is gaining momentum as US network TNT orders up the Jennifer Connelly sci-fi series.
Based on French graphic novel ‘ Le Transperceniege', Bong Joon-ho's Englishlanguage Korean sci-fi movie ‘Snowpiercer' emerged in 2013 and, despite major difficulties securing a US release, hurtled to critical acclaim and commercial success.
Telling the story of a climate stablization experiment gone dramatically wrong, ‘Snowpiercer' follows a single, enormous train that continually circumnavigates the globe, housing on board the remnants of humanity in various states of luxury and squalor.
The award-winning movie is now being prepared for TV, with Turner's US cable network TNT backing an adaptation.
Scott Derrickson, director of Marvel's extravagant ‘ Doctor Strange' alien visitation movie ‘ The Day the Earth Stood Still', and a clutch of horror movies, was installed on the ‘Snowpiercer' series in May 2017.
He helmed the pilot which TNT is now expanding into a full series, according to The Wrap.
Starring in front of camera to play new characters for the series are Jennifer Connelly of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming' and ‘A Beautiful Mind' alongside Daveed Diggs (‘ The Get Down' and ‘Ferdinand'), Hiro Kanagawa (‘ The Man in the High Castle', ‘iZombie'), Susan Park (‘Fresh Off the Boat'), Alison Wright (‘ The Americans', ‘Feud') and Arnold Pinnock (‘ Travelers'), among others.
‘Snowpiercer’ emerged in 2013 and, despite major difficulties securing a US release, hurtled to critical acclaim..