Hit action "Snowpiercer" gets TV series treatment

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Snowpiercer" is being translated into small screen. The 2013 South Korean feature film from director Bong Joon-ho handed its TV rights to Tomorrow Studios, it was announced on Wednesday, November 11, AceShowbiz reports.

Starring Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, "Snowpiercer" is set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.

The film is actually based on French graphic novel "Le Transperceneige". It grossed $4.5 million domestically and $86.8 million internationally after its June 2014 release.

According to THR, "War of the Worlds" scribe Josh Friedman is attached to pen the script for the TV series. Bong and feature co-producer Dooho Choi are on board as executive producers alongside Marty Adelstein of Tomorrow Studios and Becky Clements.

"We are very excited to be working with Josh on this incredible story," Adelstein said. "As such a prolific and innovative writer he is the ideal person to create a massive new world in this adaptation. This is an expansive, high-concept project and we are thrilled to be a part of reimagining it for television."

Friedman added, "I couldn't be more excited for the opportunity. Marty and Becky are the perfect partners to help me bring this world to TV. I'm a huge fan of director Bong's films, especially Snowpiercer. It's great the way the best sci-fi is great - thoughtful, political, funny, scary and sly. And it's on a train. What more could you want?"