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The hotly anticipated Snowpiercer, the English-language debut of director BONG Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host), has finally been granted a release date. Earlier today, distributor CJ Entertainment confirmed that the star-studded post-apocalyptic SF feature will be debuting on August 1st in South Korea. Though no other global dates have been announced, it has been confirmed that Korea will be getting the film first.

 

Starring Chris EVANS, Ed HARRIS, Jonh HURT, Tilda SWINTON, SONG Kang-ho, Octavia SPENCER, Ewen BREMNER, Jamie BELL and KO Ah-sung, Snowpiercer follows the last survivors of a futuristic Earth, who travel around their planet’s frosty terrain in a perpetually moving train, in the midst of an ice age. Within the ‘Snowpiercer’, society is broken down by class. The rich and affluent live it up at the front while the rest languish at the back. Dissent begins to brew among the oppressed inhabitants of the train’s back carriages, which leads to riot.

 

With only 50 days remaining until the film’s release, the blockbuster is kicking its marketing into overdrive: nine new posters were revealed yesterday and a trailer is expected soon. Though nothing is confirmed for its international release dates, CJ has previously stated that they hope to release the film worldwide in August.