Fight your way to the front.
Update: New filming dates = August 20th to December 22nd.
TNT ‘s Snowpiercer series is expected to start filming this summer in Vancouver under new showrunner Graeme Manson (Orphan Black), who replaces Josh Friedman.
Inspired by Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic 2013 thriller with Chris Evans, the 10-episode series takes place seven years after a post-apocalyptic Ice Age aboard a perpetual moving train, which holds the remnants of humanity.
Snowpiercer film:
Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) co-star in the series.
Daveed Diggs is a prisoner named Andre Layton at the tail end who becomes a reluctant participant in a mystery that rocks the train’s status quo.
Benjamin Haigh is Fergus Connell who lives at the back of train in poverty, along with Layton Well (Diggs).
Alison Wright (The Americans) is Lilah Anderson a mother and wife who works in the nail salon and lives in a 4th-class cabin.
Mickey Sumner is brakeman Bess Till, part of the train’s security force.
Jennifer Connelly is Melanie Cavill at the front, working as the Voice of the Train and lives in first-class.
Scott Derrickson (who helmed Doctor Strange) directed the pilot which filmed in Vancouver last summer.
The sets from the pilot are still standing in Maple Ridge.
— Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson) September 26, 2017
She’s so incredible. #Snowpiercer pic.twitter.com/wdKlksHUXk
— Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson) September 29, 2017
That’s a wrap! pic.twitter.com/JdEjj75Hsj
— Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson) October 4, 2017
Update: August 7th to December 21st via BC Production List.
Snowpiercer the series is expected to film from July 15th to December 1st in metro Vancouver.
Source: Production Weekly.