A joint venture between American and South Korean film-makers based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. A science fiction film which like many predecessors shows a bleak future for our planet, this time at the hands of climate change and shows that despite the brink of destruction the class system still seems to remain. Chris Evans, John Hurt and Tilda Swinton star alongside Koreans Song Kang-ho and Go Ah-sung.
In 2014, an experiment to counteract global warming causes an ice age that kills nearly all life on Earth. The only survivors are the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive train, powered by a perpetual-motion engine, that travels on a globe-spanning track. A class system is installed, with the elites inhabiting the front of the train and poor inhabiting the tail.
Snowpiercer is released in the UK on 22nd June 2014 at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the trailer is embedded below:
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