Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell Join Chris Evans on Bong Joon-ho's English Debut
Actor Jamie Bell and alien Tilda Swinton are in talks to join Chris Evans in Snow Piercer, the indie drama set to be Korean director Bong Joon-ho's English-language debut. As the title implies, the film is set in a snowy wasteland where, I don't know, I guess icicles might pierce you, sometimes going straight into your eye and into your brain and then you die. At least that's what I've heard from other kids. Evans, Bell, and Swinton would be playing train travelers struggling to get along over a long journey by rail.
This will be writer-director Bong Joon-ho first time working with a full cast of proper Hollywood stars, but if you've seen his The Host, Mother, or Memories of a Murder, you won't be worried for him, because those films are pretty great. And with Oldboy's Park Chan-wook producing, Snow Piercer pretty much cannot fail. As far as hugely powerhouse Asian team-ups go, this is right up there with the WWF's Orient Express.