Swinton And Bell Could Join Chris Evans In Snow Piercer

ShowBlitz reports that Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin, Moonrise Kingdom) and Jamie Bell (Tintin, King Kong) are in talks to join the science fiction comic book film Snow Piercer. Korean director Bong-Joon Ho (The Host, Mother) is at the helm with Chris Evans (Captain America) in the lead role. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic winter world and takes place on board a train full of survivors, divided by class, battling to stay alive. Based on the French graphic novel "Le Transperceneige," created by author Jacques Lob.

I Saw The Devil RED BAND Trailer

“I Saw the Devil” is a Korean revenge thriller about the death of a government agent’s girl-friend and his unbroken and almost sadistic will to make her killer suffer. The serial killer is played by “Old Boy” star Choi Min-sik and the government agent is played by Lee Byung-hyum ( Hero, GI Joe: Rise of Cobra). This film has been compared to Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy (containing Oldboy). The director is Kim Ji-woon, who has found recent international success with his “The Good, The Bad, The Weird.” Considering, the great cast and proven director, I think this film will be an excellent grunge revenge tale and eventually get a successful US release. In recent years, Korean films have been slowly but increasingly finding an audience in the United States. More popular films that have been released in the US are, “The Host”, “Oldboy”, “My Wife is a Gagster”, “My Sassy Girl” and “II mare” (remade as The Lake House). I’ve seen both “The Host” and “Oldboy” and recommend them but with some small stipulations. “Oldboy” is excellent but extremely gruesome and not suitable for the squeamish and The Host has a unique take on the monster genre, with some impressive cinematic attributes; but its special effects and overall story were somewhat ungratifying.

Andrew Niccol's The Host (2011)

I was just talking about how much I missed Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) working in the science fiction genre. With his upcoming feature The Cross, Niccol is returning to the genre which he is best in. Now there Niccol will also adapt Stephanie Meyer's (Twilight) novel The Host into a feature film. Not to be confused with the Korean monster movie, the novel focuses on interstellar parasites that use people as hosts and remake human society into something very different. Niccol will write the screenplay and also direct. The book sounds similar to one of my favorite Donald Sutherland films Invasion of The Body Snatchers mixed with Equilibrium. I'm just hoping that Niccol rewrites Meyer's dialog and character development.


Meyer's has mentioned Matt Damon as the lead.