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The Snowpiercer TV Trailer is Every Bit As Unsettling As You Hoped It Would Be

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The Snowpiercer TV Trailer is Every Bit As Unsettling As You Hoped It Would Be

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Published on July 20, 2019

Screenshot: TBS
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Snowpiercer television trailer
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If you’ve read Snowpiercer or seen the film, you know it is not a tale for the faint of heart. So why not put it on television with the talents of Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly driving it onward? There are always more terrifying depths to plumb, you know.

Get your first glimpse of Snowpiercer:

That was… harrowing seems far too tame of a word. It’s always exciting to see more of Diggs on screen in roles he can really dig into, and Connelly has just the right chill to be the train’s Head of Hospitality. The design and cinematography also stand out, which is no small feat for a trailer that clocks in at under three minutes.

Snowpiercer is coming to TBS is spring of 2020.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

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Emmet Asher-Perrin is the News & Entertainment Editor of Reactor. Their words can also be perused in tomes like Queers Dig Time Lords, Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction. They cannot ride a bike or bend their wrists. You can find them on Bluesky and other social media platforms where they are mostly quiet because they'd rather talk to you face-to-face.
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5 years ago

OK, its -119C outside.  Railroad tracks at that temp would be brittle as hell.  No way could they take the weight and speed of the train without fracturing.  And who maintains the tracks so the train can just blast ahead without worrying about whether an avalanche has crushed the tracks?  And who maintains the wheels, brakes, and other systems that are kinda important if you want a train to keep rolling, especially as you can’t fix a bogie pair unless you stop the train?

 

 

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Nathan Hall
5 years ago

@1: I agree with you that it’s a ludicrous concept. But to the best of my knowledge, part of the foundation of the idea is that the circuit they take is so big that they judge years by passing one particular landmark. I think a lot of this is including in the initial buy-in; either it’s worth it for you to suspend disbelief, or it’s not.

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David
5 years ago

The movie was amusing but extremely flawed in concept and in plot.  While the initial concept of what happened isn’t too far fetched the train and subsequent story have a lot of plot holes.  Basically in a nutshell it wouldn’t work.  There has a been a lot of speculative doomsday survival type fiction written over the years and this is not one of the better ones, or at least the english version of the movie was.  I haven’t read the book or seen the original movie.

Now that that is all said maybe we can get some real writing and develop the plot in interesting directions.  Unlike the movie which well only had one direction.

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5 years ago

preview really didn’t do it for me .

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John S
5 years ago

I’m surprised there’s no mention that a regular contributor here, and Tor-published author, is on the writing team for this:

https://twitter.com/charliejane/status/800887430190510080?lang=en

(Not that that it’s a big secret or anything – it’s mentioned in the afterword of City in the Middle of the Night –  but I’d have thought it’d be of interest/relevance to readers of this site.)

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5 years ago

The only reason I have any interest in this is because it’s “from the creator of Orphan Black”.