The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today they have acquired rights for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to Bong Joon Ho's upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller, SNOWPIERCER. The film presented by CJ Entertainment is a Moho Film, Opus Pictures, and CJ Entertainment production (producers Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae Hun, Jeong Tae-sung, and executive producer Miky Lee). The story, adapted by Bong and Kelly Masterson, is based off the French graphic novel, Le Transperceneige.
The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner and Alison Pill.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.Videos