Snowpiercer
AD 2031, the passengers in the train are the only survivors on Earth.
Country
Genre
Budget
$39 200 000
Box office
$86 758 912
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Miky Lee, Steven Nam, Jeong Tae-sung, Jeong Won-jo, Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae-hun, Miky Lee
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Ondrej Nekvasil, Zuzana Cizmarova
Audition
Johanna Ray, Jenny Jue
Editing
Short description
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob.
- The film was entirely shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague.
- This is the first English-language film by Korean director Bong Joon-ho.
- 500 meters of train set were built for the film.
- All the burning torches in the film are real.
- Mason was originally conceived as a male character, but the gender was changed after Tilda Swinton was cast in the role.
- The charcoal drawings in the film were created by Jean-Marc Rochett, the original artist.
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Dustin Hoffman were considered for the roles of Curtis and Wilford respectively, but were unable to participate due to commitments to other projects.
- Tilda Swinton wanted to have a one-on-one scene with actor Song Kang-ho in the film, but this did not happen.
- Chris Evans personally contacted director Bong Joon-ho regarding a role in the film.
- Tilda Swinton considered leaving acting, but changed her mind after filming this movie.
- Tilda Swinton speaks with a Yorkshire accent in the film, like Margaret Thatcher.
- The character Edgar is named after director Edgar Wright.
- The character Jonah's name is taken from the Bible.
- Before filming Chris Evans' monologue, he was asked to be left alone on the train set for four hours so the actor could get into the right emotional state.
- Jamie Bell said that Chris Evans rehearsed his monologue in a hotel room in front of a mirror for hours.
- Actress Emma Livie (Claude) is a non-professional actress. At the time, she was an art school student and didn't know exactly what film she was shooting, and was very surprised to see Chris Evans on set.
- Rebel Wilson was originally cast as Claude, but was unable to participate due to commitments to other projects.
- The protein bars are a mixture of seaweed and sugar. Jamie Bell found it very difficult to eat them during filming.
- Ed Harris was dissatisfied with his lines on the first day of filming and became very angry. Bong Joon-ho said he couldn't stop laughing at Harris's outburst.
- Bong Joon-ho wanted to build a zoo in the train, but the budget wouldn't allow it.
- Bong Joon-ho wanted to put many more children under the train in the film's climax, but the budget wouldn't allow it.
- During post-production, Bong Joon-ho regularly had to defend certain scenes, as Harvey Weinstein demanded the film be cut down. For example, Bong had to lie that his father was a fisherman, and the scene was supposedly dedicated to him, because of the episode where one character threatens another by releasing a fish's intestines.
- Korean actor Song Kang-ho was very surprised that the Western actors knew all their lines by heart at the script reading and apologized profusely when they messed up takes. He also regretted that he couldn’t get to know his Western colleagues better due to the language barrier.
- During post-production, Bong Joon-ho had to regularly defend certain scenes, as Harvey Weinstein demanded cuts to the film. For example, Bong had to lie that his father was a fisherman and the scene was dedicated to him, because of an episode where one character threatens another by gutting a fish.
- Ed Harris was the last actor cast in the film, at the suggestion of the director Bong Joon-ho himself.
- Fight choreographer Julian Spencer drew inspiration from the fight scene in the bathhouse from the film "Exporting Raymond" (2007).
- Song Kang-ho and Ko Ah-sung previously played father and daughter for the same director, Bong Joon-ho, in "The Host" (2006).
- In addition to her main role, Tilda Swinton appeared in the episode with the "dance room" – she hands a bottle to Yune as the main characters walk through the crowd.
- Chris Evans was worried about how silly it would look when he slipped on a dead fish during the fight scene. Bong Joon-ho had to explain to him the “beauty of the mistake”.
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