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- SNOWPIERCER TV Show Gets Pilot Order at TNT
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 23, 2016
- BONG Joon-ho, PARK Chan-wook to Serve as Producers
Following news of a planned US television remake last year, BONG Joon-ho’s hit dystopian thriller Snowpiercer (2013) has now received a pilot order from American network TNT. Director BONG as well as the film’s producers PARK Chan-wook, LEE Tae-hun and CHOI Doo-ho and distributor CJ Entertainment will participate as producers on the television update.Josh Friedman, who wrote the pilot, will also serve as showrunner and writer and executive producer on the rest of the show, should it be ordered to series. Friedman previously masterminded another movie-to-TV update, the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles series and has also worked with James Cameron on the scenarios of his upcoming Avatar sequels. Also producing are Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements.“Snowpiercer has one of the most original concepts to hit the screen in the last decade, and it’s one that offers numerous opportunities for deeper exploration in a series format,” stated TNT’s EVP of Original Programming Sarah Aubrey. “We look forward to expanding TNT’s relationship with Tomorrow Studios and their take on a world where humanity is pushed to the extreme.”Speaking of her company’s continued relationship with the network, Adelstein said “TNT has become a great producing partner to Tomorrow Studios, and we are excited to continue our relationship with them on Snowpiercer, for which we not only have a pilot but are writing multiple scripts. This is an incredibly powerful story and one for which finding the perfect home was imperative to its success.”The original Snowpiercer starred Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, John Hurt, SONG Kang-ho, KO Asung and many others in a post-apocalyptic tale of a train with class divisions housing the last remnants of the human race with perpetually circumnavigation of the globe during an ice age.
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