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*''"The 72-page Snowpiercer TV pilot script by [Josh Friedman] is the best I’ve ever read. The feature-length pilot I made from that script may be my best work. The new showrunner has a radically different vision for the show. I am forgoing my option to direct the extreme reshoots."''<ref>[https://deadline.com/2018/06/snowpiercer-director-refuses-return-reshoots-showrunner-vision-scott-derrickson-1202420009/ - ‘Snowpiercer’ Director Refuses To Return For Reshoots Over Showrunner’s “Radically Different Vision”]</ref>
*''"The 72-page Snowpiercer TV pilot script by [Josh Friedman] is the best I’ve ever read. The feature-length pilot I made from that script may be my best work. The new showrunner has a radically different vision for the show. I am forgoing my option to direct the extreme reshoots."''<ref>[https://deadline.com/2018/06/snowpiercer-director-refuses-return-reshoots-showrunner-vision-scott-derrickson-1202420009/ - ‘Snowpiercer’ Director Refuses To Return For Reshoots Over Showrunner’s “Radically Different Vision”]</ref>


Less than two weeks later, [[James Hawes]] joined the series in July as a co-executive producer and a director to oversee the reshoots for the pilot.<ref>[https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/snowpiercer-series-tnt-director-james-hawes-1202869102/ - James Hawes to Direct 'Snowpiercer' Pilot Reshoots for TNT (EXCLUSIVE)]</ref> Later that month, Netflix picked up the international distribution rights to stream the series outside of the United States and China.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2018/07/netflix-international-distribution-snowpiercer-dear-john-1202432340/ - Netflix Takes International Distribution On TNT's 'Snowpiercer' & Bravo's 'Dirty John]</ref> In May 2019, it was announced that the series would air on [[TBS]] instead of '''TNT''' for a spring 2020 release, and that a second season had already been ordered by the network.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2019/05/snowpiercer-moves-tbs-season-2-renewal-1202615187/ - ‘Snowpiercer’ Moves To TBS With Early Season 2 Renewal]</ref> Manson will return as showrunner for the second season.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2019/06/snowpiercer-steven-ogg-promoted-series-regular-season-2-1202630527/ - ‘Snowpiercer’: Steven Ogg Upped To Series Regular For Season 2]</ref><ref>[https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/snowpiercer/281686/snowpiercer-season-2-tbs - Snowpiercer Season 2 Cast and Details]</ref>
Less than two weeks later, [[James Hawes]] joined the series in July as a co-executive producer and a director to oversee the reshoots for the pilot.<ref>[https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/snowpiercer-series-tnt-director-james-hawes-1202869102/ - James Hawes to Direct 'Snowpiercer' Pilot Reshoots for TNT (EXCLUSIVE)]</ref> Later that month, Netflix picked up the international distribution rights to stream the series outside of the United States and China.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2018/07/netflix-international-distribution-snowpiercer-dear-john-1202432340/ - Netflix Takes International Distribution On TNT's 'Snowpiercer' & Bravo's 'Dirty John]</ref> In May 2019, it was announced that the series would air on [[TBS]] instead of '''[[TNT]]''' for a spring 2020 release, and that a [[Season 2|second season]] had already been ordered by the network.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2019/05/snowpiercer-moves-tbs-season-2-renewal-1202615187/ - ‘Snowpiercer’ Moves To TBS With Early Season 2 Renewal]</ref> That month, it was also announced that Huanxi Media Group had signed on to broadcast the first two seasons exclusively in China. Manson will return as showrunner for the second season.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2019/06/snowpiercer-steven-ogg-promoted-series-regular-season-2-1202630527/ - ‘Snowpiercer’: Steven Ogg Upped To Series Regular For Season 2]</ref><ref>[https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/snowpiercer/281686/snowpiercer-season-2-tbs - Snowpiercer Season 2 Cast and Details]</ref> In September 2019, the decision to change networks was reversed, with the series once again set to air on [[TNT]].


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Revision as of 19:20, 9 October 2019

Snowpiercer is an upcoming post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television drama series that is set to air on TNT in the second quarter of 2020. It is based on both the 2013 South Korean-Czech film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, from which the film was adapted, by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette.

The series, a reboot of the film's continuity, follows the passengers of the Snowpiercer, a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe carrying the remnants of humanity seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland. Snowpiercer questions class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival.

While in development at TNT for over three years, the series faced numerous production issues and delays arising from creative differences between the series' producers and the network. The series remained in development hell until May 2019, when it was announced that the series would instead air on TBS for a spring 2020 release, and that it was already renewed for a second season. However, in September 2019, the decision to change networks was reversed.[1]

Synopsis

Snowpiercer picks up seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland and follows the remnants of humanity who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. The show questions class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival.

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Development

In November 2015, Marty Adelstein's Tomorrow Studios optioned the rights to develop a television series based on the 2013 film Snowpiercer, which was adapted from the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film's director Bong Joon-ho was attached as an executive producer alongside Adelstein and Josh Friedman, with the latter also set to write. A year later in November 2016, the project was ordered to pilot along with backup scripts by TNT with Friedman to serve as showrunner. In May 2017, it was announced that Scott Derrickson would direct the pilot written by Friedman. The pilot was picked up to series in January 2018. Later that month, Friedman was removed from the project by TNT due to "creative differences" with the network. Graeme Manson was appointed to replace Friedman as showrunner the following month. That June, Derrickson refused to return for reshoots on the pilot due to creative disputes with Manson, explaining via Twitter:

  • "The 72-page Snowpiercer TV pilot script by [Josh Friedman] is the best I’ve ever read. The feature-length pilot I made from that script may be my best work. The new showrunner has a radically different vision for the show. I am forgoing my option to direct the extreme reshoots."[2]

Less than two weeks later, James Hawes joined the series in July as a co-executive producer and a director to oversee the reshoots for the pilot.[3] Later that month, Netflix picked up the international distribution rights to stream the series outside of the United States and China.[4] In May 2019, it was announced that the series would air on TBS instead of TNT for a spring 2020 release, and that a second season had already been ordered by the network.[5] That month, it was also announced that Huanxi Media Group had signed on to broadcast the first two seasons exclusively in China. Manson will return as showrunner for the second season.[6][7] In September 2019, the decision to change networks was reversed, with the series once again set to air on TNT.

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References

  1. ↑ - ‘Snowpiercer’ To Air On TNT As Decision To Move Sci-Fi Drama To TBS Is Reversed
  2. ↑ - ‘Snowpiercer’ Director Refuses To Return For Reshoots Over Showrunner’s “Radically Different Vision”
  3. ↑ - James Hawes to Direct 'Snowpiercer' Pilot Reshoots for TNT (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. ↑ - Netflix Takes International Distribution On TNT's 'Snowpiercer' & Bravo's 'Dirty John
  5. ↑ - ‘Snowpiercer’ Moves To TBS With Early Season 2 Renewal
  6. ↑ - ‘Snowpiercer’: Steven Ogg Upped To Series Regular For Season 2
  7. ↑ - Snowpiercer Season 2 Cast and Details
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