The sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer gets a new international trailer. Take a fresh look at The Host director Bong Joon-ho's latest film here...
The discussion over The Host director Bong Joon-ho's forthcoming Snowpiercer has been derailed somewhat by the story that its US distributor, The Weinstein Company, intends to remove 20 minutes from its two-hour duration.
The sci-fi thriller, set aboard a perpetually moving train rumbling through a bleak future winter, came out last summer in its native South Korea, and was both a critical and financial success. Its international cast, which includes Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt and Ed Harris as the passengers on a train locked in a bitter class war, should see it make some sort of impact on western cinemas, too, though the Weinsteins seem intent on trimming the movie down to make it into a more straightforward action movie.
Director Bong is understandably unhappy about all this, and it could well be the ongoing battle over the North American edit that's detaining the movie - at the time of writing, there's no release date available for the US or the UK. Still, Snowpiercer's release in Japan is still forging ahead, as the Japanese trailer below reminds us. It's a fantastic-looking movie, and we can't wait to see it.
When a UK release date emerges, we'll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, owners of region-free Blu-ray players may be interested to learn that Snowpiercer comes out on Blu-ray in France on the 26th March...
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