Snowpiercer (2013)

Director:

Joon-ho Bong

Writers (WGA):

Joon-ho Bong (screenplay) and
Kelly Masterson (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

2013 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

AD 2031: the passengers in the train are the only survivors on Earth.

Plot:

AD 2031, the passengers in the train are the only survivors on Earth. |

Plot Keywords:

Snow | Based On Comic Book | Based On Graphic Novel | Based On Comic | Winter

Status:

Post-production | See complete list of 25,800 in-production titles »

Status Updated:

13 July 2012

More Info:

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Cast

Chris Evans	...	Curtis
John Hurt	...	Gilliam
Jamie Bell	...	Edgar
Tilda Swinton	...	Mason
Ed Harris	...	Wilford
Alison Pill
Octavia Spencer	...	Tanya
Ewen Bremner	...	Andrew
Luke Pasqualino	...	Grey
Kang-ho Song	...	Namgoong Minsu
Steve Park	...	Fuyu (as Stephen Park)
Kenny Doughty
Clark Middleton	...	Painter
Tómas Lemarquis	...	Egg-head
Adnan Haskovic	...	Franco The Younger
Vlad Ivanov	...	Franco Elder
Kojo Asiedu
Igor Juric	...	Dark voice
Ah-sung Ko	...	Yona
Emma Levie	...	Claude
Marcanthonee Reis
Griffin Seymour	...	Boy
Brian Colin Foley	...	Soldier A
Jim High	...	Soldier One
Kendrick Ong	...	Soldier B
Peter Hallin	...	Soldier Two
Sean Connor Renwick	...	Sergio
Ana Braun	...	Yilfa
Haruna Honcoop	...	Female Officer
Luna Sophia Bar-Cohen	...	Magdalena

Directed by
Joon-ho Bong

Writing credits (WGA)
Joon-ho Bong		(screenplay) and
Kelly Masterson		(screenplay)
Joon-ho Bong		(screen story)
Jacques Lob		(based on Le Transperceneige by) &
Benjamin Legrand		(based on Le Transperceneige by) and
Jean-Marc Rochette		(based on Le Transperceneige by)

Produced by
Robert Bernacchi	....	co-producer
Dooho Choi	....	co-producer
Tae-sung Jeong	....	producer
Tae-hun Lee	....	producer: film
David Minkowski	....	co-producer
Steven Nam	....	producer
Chan-wook Park	....	producer
Tae-joon Park	....	line producer
Matthew Stillman	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Marco Beltrami

Cinematography by
Kyung-Pyo Hong

Film Editing by
Steve M. Choe

Casting by
Jenny Jue
Johanna Ray

Production Design by
Ondrej Nekvasil

Art Direction by
Stefan Kovacik

Set Decoration by
Beata Brendtnerovà

Costume Design by
Catherine George

Makeup Department
Linda Eisenhamerova	....	hair stylist
Chris Lyons	....	special effects teeth
Gabriela Polakova	....	makeup artist
Paula Price	....	hair & makeup artist
Matthew Smith	....	prosthetic sculptor
Jeremy Woodhead	....	make-up and hair designer

Production Management
Robert Bernacchi	....	unit production manager
Gerhard Rupp	....	production manager: Austria

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jakub Dvorak	....	second assistant director
Robert Grayson	....	first assistant director
Sallie Anne Hard	....	key second assistant director

Art Department
Petr Bouska	....	set designer
Zuzana Cizmarova	....	assistant art director
Adela Hakova	....	set designer
Roman Illovsky	....	on-set art director
Eliska Jenickova	....	assistant production designer
Cloud Razali	....	junior set designer
Jan Svoboda	....	art department coordinator
Pavel Tatar	....	set designer

Sound Department
Anna Behlmer	....	sound re-recording mixer
Sung Rok Choi	....	sound designer
Tae-young Choi	....	sound re-recording mixer
Patrick Christensen	....	adr engineer
Judah Getz	....	adr mixer
Mark Holding	....	sound mixer
Kyle D. Krajewski	....	adr recordist
Michael Miller	....	adr mixer
Terry Porter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Roman Rigo	....	boom operator
Dave Whitehead	....	sound designer

Special Effects by
Pavel Sagner	....	special effects supervisor
Faujja Singh	....	key armourer
Frantisek Sloup	....	gimbal operator
Russell L. Smith	....	special effects technician
Jirí Vater	....	senior special effects technician
Jirí Vojtech	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Antony Allen	....	junior compositor: Method Studios
Andrzej Bandurski	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Fritz Beck	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Larissa Bender	....	accounting & payroll: ScanlineVFX
Tomas Bezdecka	....	digital artist
Eglantine Boinet	....	digital matte painter: Method Studios London
Zoltán Bojtos	....	digital compositor
Peter Bowmar	....	head of technology: Method Studios Vancouver
Mark Breakspear	....	visual effects supervisor: Method Studios Vancouver
Ariane Brinkmann	....	account executive: ScanlineVFX
Jakub Budina	....	compositor
Christian Burggraf	....	systems admistrator: ScanlineVFX
André Cabaco	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
John Cairns	....	compositing supervisor: Method Vancouver
Korey J. Cauchon	....	visual effects producer: Method Studios
Michal Cavoj	....	digital effects artist
Dalibor Cee	....	visual effects artist
Kang Changbae	....	visual effects
Alexis Chapman	....	digital compositor: method studios
Patrick Clancey	....	digital opticals
Jochen Conradt	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Niko Conte	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Michelle Cornwall	....	data wrangler I/O: Method Studios Vancouver
Michelle Cornwall	....	visual effects assistant coordinator: Method Studios Vancouver
Marcela Coto	....	visual effects assistant
Marco de Goeij	....	matchmove artist: ScanlineVFX
Simone De Salvatore	....	matte painting artist: ScanlineVFX
Gabriel Dedic	....	color scientist: ScanlineVFX
Francesco Dell'Anna	....	digital compositor
Thad Diego	....	r&d developer: ScanlineVFX
Jesus Diez Perez	....	digital compositor: Method Studios London
Martin Dolezal	....	compositing supervisor: UPP
Moriba Duncan	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX
Eric Durst	....	visual effects designer
Moritz Eiche	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Marijn Eken	....	compositing artist: ScanlineVFX
Marco Fanari	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX
Manuel Ferdinand	....	r&d developer: ScanlineVFX
Bruno Fernandes	....	digital compositor: Method Studios London
Robert Freitag	....	visual effects artist
Christoph Gaudl	....	matchmove artist: ScanlineVFX
Jan Glöckner	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Derik Gokstorp	....	pipeline technical director
Björn Gottwald	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Markus Hagemeier	....	visual effects editor: ScanlineVFX
David Harter	....	compositing supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Daniela Hasenbring	....	r&d developer: ScanlineVFX
Carla Heinzel	....	animator: ScanlineVFX
Lukas Herrmann	....	digital matte painting supervisor
Marc Herzer	....	lighting/shading artist: ScanlineVFX
Simone Hirschberger	....	human resources: ScanlineVFX
Tobias Hoffmann	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Wendy Hulbert	....	visual effects coordinator: ScanlineVFX
Peter Hunt	....	lighting technical director: Method Studios Vancouver
Timo Hyhs	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Stephan Hähnlein	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Mirko Hänssgen	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX
Stefan Ihringer	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Hasan Ilhan	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Dalibor Janda	....	digital compositor
Manovigianek Jehman	....	pipeline technical director: Method Studios Vancouver
Zahid Jiwa	....	digital artist: Method Studios Vancouver
Vijay Kadapatti	....	stereo production coordinator
Christian Kahler	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Tomas Kalhous	....	head of 2D: UPP
Changbae Kang	....	lead lighting artist
Matej Kardelis	....	digital compositor
Sandro Kath	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Dave Kim	....	visual effects coordinator: ScanlineVFX
Martin Kindl	....	visual effects
Sarah Kirchgässner	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Ivo Klaus	....	fx supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Claudia Knorr	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX
Nikolay Kolev	....	digital compositor
Vít Komrzý	....	visual effects producer
Lukasz Kopec	....	cg animator
Meier Korbinian	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Vaclav Kostun	....	machmove artist
Christian Kratzert	....	animation supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Andrea Krupp	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Jan Krupp	....	r&d supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Sebastian Küchmeister	....	lead fx: ScanlineVFX
Roland Langschwert	....	fx supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Felix Laser	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Justin Lee	....	visual effects systems administrator: Method Studios London
Sean Lee	....	visual effects producer
Jirí Linhart	....	digital effects artist
Björn Lubitz	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Philippe Majdalani	....	digital intermediate assistant producer
Jona Maluck	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Giorgio Marino	....	compositing artist: ScanlineVFX
Dirk Mauche	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX
Michel Mielke	....	visual effects supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Djordje Milasinovic	....	digital compositor: UPP
Walid Mouawad	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Viktor Muller	....	visual effects supervisor
Tibor Nadas	....	texture artist
Andreas Nehls	....	modeling supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Jessica Newhouse-Smith	....	visual effects coordinator: Method Studios London
Papp Nikolett	....	compositor: Method Studios
Péter Obornik	....	lighting td
Pavel Ocovaj	....	visual effects artist
Paula Olszowska	....	compositor
Peter Orlicky	....	digital compositor
Stepan Pazderka	....	digital compositor
Menelaos Peristeridis	....	matte painting artist: ScanlineVFX
Chi Pham	....	visual effects systems administrator
George Pinkava	....	digital compositor: UPP
Andrew Pinson	....	junior compositor: Method Studios
Christian Pokorny	....	lead shading artist: ScanlineVFX
Jiri Pospisil	....	texture artist
Esdras Prudente	....	rotoscope lead: Method Studios Vancouver
Giorgia Pulvirenti	....	junior compositor: Method Studios
Ingo Putze	....	matte painting artist: ScanlineVFX
Cloud Razali	....	vfx assistant coordinator
Ralf Rendelmann	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Laurent Reynaud	....	digital compositor
Sandra Roach	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Bernardo Rodriguez	....	visual effects editor: ScanlineVFX
Timo Rolle	....	visual effects editor: ScanlineVFX
Casey Rolseth	....	visual effects artist: Method Studios
Benjamin Ross	....	matte painting artist: ScanlineVFX
Simon Ross	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Yves Ruprecht	....	animator: ScanlineVFX
Michael Scheffler	....	systems admistrator: ScanlineVFX
Franz Schiller	....	digital compositor: Scanline VFX
Paul Schlie	....	compositor: ScanlineVFX
Den Serras	....	roto/paint supervisor: Deluxe
Felix Serwir	....	digital compositor
Misato Shinohara	....	visual effects production manager
Filip Sustek	....	digital compositor: UPP
András Szõcs	....	digital compositor
Heiko Sülberg	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Joshua Teleki	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX
Thiago Teles Trilux	....	roto/paint artist
Curtis Tsai	....	visual effects coordinator: Method Studios Vancouver
Vaclav Uhlir	....	tracker/matchmover
Alexander Urik	....	effects artist: ScanlineVFX
Frantisek Vaclavek	....	visual effects artist
Johannes Vogl	....	lighting and shading: ScanlineVFX
Jenny Wan	....	roto/prep artist
Ian Ward	....	cg supervisor
José Manuel Weil	....	cg supervisor: ScanlineVFX
Matthias Winter	....	visual effects producer: ScanlineVFX
Maike Witt	....	team assistant: ScanlineVFX
Melody Woodford	....	head of production: Method Studios
Bjoern Wortmann	....	digital compositor: ScanlineVFX
Trevor Wyatt	....	rotoscope and matchmove coordinator: method studios
Mert Yamak	....	cg supervisor
Jose Yapor	....	visual effects artist
Ismat Zaidi	....	visual effects executive producer: ScanlineVFX
Katarzyna Zak	....	visual effects coordinator: ScanlineVFX
Rainer Zöttl	....	modeling artist: ScanlineVFX

Stunts
Pavel Bousek	....	stunts
Pavel Cajzl	....	stunt coordinator
Jan Holicek	....	stunt rigger
Marek Jelinek	....	stunts
Igor Juric	....	parkour stunts
Jindrich Klaus	....	stunts
Miroslav Lhotka	....	stunts
Jan Loukota	....	stunts
Jan Petrina	....	stunt double: Chris Evans
Jiri Simberský	....	stunts
Julian Spencer	....	stunt coordinator
Marek Svitek	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Jan Carda	....	first assistant camera
Michal Chadima	....	video assist operator
Ladislav Hruby	....	first assistant camera
Vladimir Kesl	....	computer video supervisor
Jae-Hyeok Lee	....	still photographer
Miroslav Pavlik	....	second assistant camera
Jan Rehanzl	....	best boy grip
Jan Rehanzl	....	dolly grip
Bogdan Stanciu	....	steadicam operator: "b" camera
Petr Zavrel	....	second assistant camera

Casting Department
Sarah Marie Brown	....	casting assistant
Jirí Hrstka	....	extras casting
Krista Husar	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Katalina Iturralde	....	head ager and dyer
Courtney McClain	....	assistant costume designer
Patricie Soptenková	....	set costumer

Editorial Department
Tricia Chiarenza	....	color timer
Katie Jordan	....	digital intermediate color assist
Curtis Lindersmith	....	digital intermediate editor
Yvan Lucas	....	film colorist
Joel McWilliams	....	digital intermediate color assist

Music Department
Ron Finn	....	music editor
John Kurlander	....	music recording engineer
John Kurlander	....	score mixer
Tyson Lozensky	....	assistant score mixer
Tyson Lozensky	....	assistant scoring engineer
Chris McGeary	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Richard Wild	....	driver: cast

Other crew
Daniel Adam	....	extras wrangler
Michal Engrth	....	first assistant accountant
Thomas Fuchs	....	film commissioner
Kubhaer T. Jethwani	....	set production assistant
Tereza Mandic Listikova	....	assistant production manager
Iva Lukesová	....	assistant accountant (2013)
Sonny Ritscher	....	production controller
Parry Shen	....	voice artist
Goran Uljanic	....	assistant production coordinator
Ludek Vomacka	....	production coordinator
Peter Ziak	....	accountant: cz

Production Companies

• SnowPiercer
• Moho Films
• Opus Pictures
• Stillking Films
• CJ Entertainment

Distributors

• Bitters End (2013) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Kadokawa Pictures (2013) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Le Pacte (2013) (France) (theatrical)
• Weinstein Company, The (2013) (USA) (theatrical)
• Wild Side Films (2013) (France) (theatrical)
• CJ Entertainment (2013) (South Korea) (all media)
• Tanweer Films (2013) (Bangladesh) (all media)
• Tanweer Films (2013) (Bhutan) (all media)
• Tanweer Films (2013) (India) (all media)
• Tanweer Films (2013) (Nepal) (all media)
• Tanweer Films (2013) (Pakistan) (all media)
• Tanweer Films (2013) (Sri Lanka) (all media)

Special Effects

• Industrial Pixel VFX (body scanning)
• Method Studios (Vancouver)
• ScanlineVFX

Other Companies

• Arri Rental  camera equipment provided by
• Arri Rental  grip and lighting equipment
• Barrandov Studios  studio facilities provided by
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies
• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• EFilm  digital intermediate
• EXTRAfilms S.r.o.  casting
• Scallywag Travel  travel agent
• Universal Production Partners (UPP)  post-production

Also Known As:

"Snow Piercer" - International (English title) (imdb display title)

Country:

South Korea | USA | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

SnowPiercer

Trivia:

This is based on the French graphic novel "Le Transperceneige". Director Joon-ho Bong discovered the comic in late 2004 during pre-production of The Host (2006), and was fascinated by the concept of people struggling on the train for survival.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.14" (2012)