Pilot Episode

All That Remains, better known as the Pilot Episode, was the unaired pilot episode of Snowpiercer. (A pilot episode is a standalone episode of a TV-Series made to sell the show to television networks/distributors as a testing ground to see and test if the series will be successful.)

The script was written and the episode was shot sometime between 2016 and 2017. It has never been released to the public and has most probably been lost to time, however concept art as well as numerous photographs of the sets, episode and the script has surfaced on the internet.

The 72 page script can be read here.

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	Never Aired
	Josh Friedman
	Unknown
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Script Synopsis

We open on the image of a snowstorm and text on the screen explaining what happened on planet earth before it became frozen. We quickly see the massive snowpiercer train, which is leaving a frozen city in the midst of the storm. Then we look into the eye of a cow, which has the number 18 written on its forehead. She's with a dozen of other cows. Welcome now to the tail section of the train, a place of starvation and hopelessness. We follow a little boy named Fergus, who's playing with rats, and a man named Layton, who may or may not be his father. A woman's voice is heard over the loudspeaker, wishing the passengers good morning on behalf of Wilford Industries and Transport.

We're introduced to five workers who are stripping off their filthy work clothes under the supervision of security guards known as “The Brakemen.” Their skin is covered with industrial waste. They enter the tail section, where they're reunited with their families. Fergus hugs one of them: it's his father, Ian. We then meet the Anderson family: Jack, Lilah and their teenage daughter LJ. They're eating breakfast peacefully, in a pod that looks nicer than the tail section. Once he's done eating, Jack joins the agricultural supply car, through a railed transportation tunnel. Turns out he's a farm worker, soon to feed our cow number 18. Meanwhile, Lilah goes to her job at a high-end nail salon. A client is waiting for her, and it's Melanie Cavill, the voice of the train announcements. She's a member of the train's First Class and she's fascinated with the other half.

Known Cast

• Jenifer Connelly as Melanie Cavill
• Lena Hall as Sayori

Trivia

• A-lot of characters are different and unknown, yet some of the main characters made it into the series, and some characters seem reminicent of current characters in the show (such as Sayori and Ruth Wardell, or Fergus and Miles).
• The pilot episode was much darker than the show, as there was cannibalism and the entire train was more like a cult. One of the supporting factors is the fact that the engineers are "monk-like in mien."
• The episode seems to lean more towards the movie than the current show does, as the train hits 2 massive walls of ice in the episode.
• The events of a breach in the cattle car is very similar to the one in Season 1 Episode 2.
• Melanie was supposed to be blonde in the pilot.
• In the pilot, Wilford Industries was known as "Wilford Industries & Transport" instead of just Wilford Industries.
• Wilford isn't on-board Snowpiercer just like season 1 of the series, however his backstory in the pilot seems darker. According to Sayori, Wilford's father grandfather worked in a car factory, but lost their job when the factory shutdown. His father went on a search for a job but never returned and his mother lost her house, leading them to living in shelters, the streets and eventually railyards and empty trains. His mother had to sacrifice herself for Wilford to go to school.

Gallery

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  Departure Concept Art

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  Screenshot from the end of the episode

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  Pilot Train Concept Art

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  (Presumed) Screenshot of the tail section, most probably with Sayori in the center

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  Screenshot from when the train hits a wall of ice

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  Screenshot from when the cattle car is breached