John Hurt lands Snow Piercer role

(Cover) - EN Movies - John Hurt has joined the cast of Snow Piercer.

The post-apocalyptic thriller is based on the French comic Le Transperceneige created by Jean-Marc Rochette, and follows a group that is travelling by train together in a future ice age.

It is South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s first foray into English language film.

John is elated to be working with Bong, whose 2006 monster film The Host was South Korea’s highest grossing film of all time.

“All the film crew refer to him, with great reverence, as ‘Director Bong’,” John told British newspaper the Telegraph.

“I love the fact that I am working for Director Bong.”

John will join Tilda Swinton and Captain America: The First Avenger actor Chris Evans on the ensemble. The specific roles that each star will portray have not yet been revealed.

Park Chan-wook, director of the hit 2003 action-thriller Old Boy, will assist Bong with the film’s production.

Production on Snow Piercer is set to begin in March, although a distributor for the film has not yet been acquired.

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