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Writer and Director Bong Joon-ho wanted to underline the pressing danger of global warming by setting the year that CW-7 is dispersed as 2014.
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Jamie Bell's character, Edgar, was named after Director Edgar Wright.
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Bong Joon-ho first wrote the part of Mason with John C. Reilly in mind, but then adapted the character for Tilda Swinton, though he intentionally left lines of Mason being referred to in the masculine-form in the script, which show up in the movie.
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The markings on the engine, a circle with a narrow "S" on it, represent the yin yang, the same relationship between the front and the back of the train. The front can't survive without the children of the back, and the back can't survive without the food from the front, a "perfect" symbiotic relationship.
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Sold to one hundred sixty-seven territories ahead of its theatrical opening in 2013, its production company CJ Entertainment's biggest sales success. (2016)
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This is based on the French graphic novel "Le Transperceneige". Bong Joon-ho discovered the comic in late 2004, during pre-production of The Host (2006), and was fascinated by the concept of people struggling on the train for survival.
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John Hurt (Gilliam) and Tilda Swinton (Mason) appeared together that same year in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
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Tilda Swinton had to spend more than two hours in the make-up chair.
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Kang-ho Song and Ko Asung appeared together in The Host (2006), also directed by Bong Joon Ho, but Paul Lazar(Paul, the "cook") also appears in it as a US doctor.
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The concept of Teacher (Alison Pill) being pregnant, came from Ko Asung.
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Chris Evans personally contacted Bong Joon-ho for the audition after hearing the casting news.
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