Friday, February 03, 2012

Oscar Contender Spencer Is A Snow Rider

The Help" star Octavia Spencer has has joined the cast of the sci-fi indie "Snow Piercer" reports Heat Vision.


The film is an adaptation of the French comic "Le Transperceneige and is set in a future when an Ice Age has killed off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution bubbles up.

Spencer plays a passenger on the train who joins the revolt in order to save her son.

Chris Evans, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton Jamie Bell and Kang Ho also star.

"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" writer Kelly Masterson rewrote the film

"The Host" director Joon-ho Bong will call action on the pic and wrote the initial script with the original "Oldboy" director Chan-wook Park, the latter will also produce with Dooho Choi

Filming kicks off in April.

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