Snowpiercer is a 2013 science-fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.
Plot
After an attempt to stop global warming via climate engineering castastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age in 2014, the remnants of humanity have taken to a circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford. By 2031, the passengers on the train have become segregated by class, with the elite in the extravagant front cars while the poor are forced into squalid tail compartments by armed guards.
Cast
- Chris Evans as Curtis Everett
- Song Kang-ho as Namgoong Minsoo
- Ed Harris as Wilford
- John Hurt as Gilliam
- Tilda Swinton as Minister Mason
- Jamie Bell as Edgar
- Octavia Spencer as Tanya
- Ewen Bremner as Andrew
- Go Ah-sung as Yona
- Alison Pill as Teacher
- Vlad Ivanov as Franco the Elder
- Luke Pasqualino as Grey
Production
- The film was shot in the Czech Republic.
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