Snowpiercer is coming to television, executive produced by Bong Joon-ho.
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An impossibly long train, filled to capacity with the remnants of humanity, hurtles across an icy, unforgiving wasteland in Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. Like its titular train, which runs an endless loop around the frozen globe thanks to a perpetual motion device, this new sci-fi epic is a spark of life amidst a harsh landscape of its own; the blockbuster movie season. With so many plastic franchise pictures deluging us in special effects and massive production set pieces, often to increasingly diminished effect, it’s a joy and relief to find a film that gives us a new kind of space to inhabit while masterfully telling a story that resonates.
Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi drama Snowpiercer is under $7 on Blu-ray today.
A dystopian story about a genetically engineered beast with overt anti-capitalist connotations, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja represents a synthesis and an upgrade – in scale as well as quality – of the director’s previous outings The Host and Snowpiercer, confirming him as one of the finest contemporary craftsmen of intelligent, ambitious blockbusters.
Okja is set in a parallel, not-very-different present, where the giant agrochemical corporation Mirando has covertly engineered a new breed of “super-pigs,” ostensibly to solve the world’s hunger problems, but really just to sell cheap meat and make a shit-ton of cash. GMO foods carry a stigma, however, so Mirando lie about the provenance of the super-pigs, claiming they were discovered on a Chilean farm. To divert the public’s attention, the company’s grotesque CEO, Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), launches a massive promotional campaign in which farmers across the world will compete in raising the largest super-pig over a period of ten years.
“No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.”
“I’m already planning more adventures with Bong Joon-ho. He is a great master like Luca,” Tilda Swinton recently said, confirming plans to reteam with her Snowpiercer director.
