Here's your latest look at Joon-ho Bong's adaptation of the groundbreaking French graphic novel
After a seemingly insufferable wait, Snowpiercerwill finally be riding into U.S. theaters on June 27th. Based on the acclaimed French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette and Benjamin Legrand (which was recently compiled in a two-volume set by Titan Books for English-speaking markets), the film chronicles life aboard a train whose passengers are the remnants of humanity following a botched experiment to stop global warming.
Yahoo has just premiered a new red band trailer for the film, which features an unrecognizable Tilda Swinton going on and on about order and Chris Evans looking sadder than Captain America at Peggy Carter's bedside. John Hurt and Octavia Spencer also co-star. Take a look:
As a huge fan of the source material, I am curious to see how director Joon-ho Bong -- director of the underrated 2006 monster flick The Host -- shapes the complicated story into a more coherent narrative. Although given that part of the film's lengthy journey into theaters had to do with a skirmish between Bong and distributor Harvey Weinstein over the film's length and editing, maybe coherence won't really be in play too much here. (The pair did eventually settle their differences, with Bong's intended cut hitting theaters, albeit in a limited run capacity).
The perfectly paced trailer is filled with stunning visuals and some genuinely strange and exciting moments. If this turns out to be half as weird and satisfyng as The Host, we are in for a first class moviegoing journey.
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