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SNOW PIERCER (2013): Octavia Spencer cast in Joon-ho Bong Film

Octavia Spencer, Crying

Octavia Spencer cast in Snow Piercer. The casting of Octavia Spencer in Joon-ho Bong‘s Snow Piercer (2013) is one in a series of recent castings for the post-apocalypse, thriller film. Those recent castings include Chris Evans, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, and Kang-ho Song.

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Snow Piercer‘s plot synopsis: “set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.”

Octavia Spencer’s role in Snow Piercer: “Spencer plays a passenger on the train who joins the revolt in order to save her son.”

On the production and the script for Snow Piercer:

Chan Wook-Park and Dooho Choi are producing. Kelly Masterson wrote the most recent draft for this adaptation of the 1970s French graphic novel Le Transperceneige…The script, [is] from Bong and Oldboy director Park Chan-wook.

I loved Joon-ho Bong’s The Host, watched it twice back-to-back when I first saw it and reviewed it here: (Film Review: The Host). Thank God the remake never happened. Joon-ho Bong’s Mother was great as well, but in a different way. I am looking forward to Joon-ho Bong’s first United States film.

Source: Slashfilm, Hollywoodreporter

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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