Marlon Wayans was cast as Ripcord after his performance in Requiem for a Dream (2000). Wayans is also a fan of G.I. Joe (1985).
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Sir John Hurt and Tilda Swinton appeared in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).
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Mason was originally a male character and described as a "peaceful" one in the original script. This changed when Tilda Swinton was cast.
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The glasses that Mason was wearing were originally Tilda Swinton's. When Writer and Director Bong Joon-ho visited her, they played with her children's play box and found them.
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Filmed in seventy-two days.
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Emma Levie was a Dutch college student that Bong Joon-ho contacted after watching a short film in Toronto Film Festival. Levie was surprised to see celebrities Chris Evans and Ed Harris when she came to the set.
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Bong Joon-ho says he got the idea from a 1970s nuclear-powered submarine. The train and nuclear-powered submarine in the 1970s had a similar average speed of fifty kilometers (thirty-one miles) per hour.
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The premise bears similarities to the premise of "The Second Renaissance" segment of The Animatrix (2003). Both movies show humans causing their own downfall by releasing an airborne gas into the atmosphere, only in The Animatrix (2003), it was to block the machines' power source (the sun). In this movie, it is released to stop global warming.
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This is Bong Joon-ho's first English-language movie.
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This is the second movie featuring Chris Evans which featured Earth frozen in another ice age, after Sunshine (2007).
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This is the third dystopian themed movie for Sir John Hurt, after 1984 (1984) and V for Vendetta (2005).
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Song Kang-ho, Ko Asung, and Paul Lazar appeared in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006).
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According to the filmmakers, train-babies like Yona (Ko Asung) developed animalistic hearing skills.
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Jamie Bell and Chris Evans played members of the Fantastic Four. Evans played The Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and Bell played The Thing in Fantastic Four (2015).
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Writer and Director Bong Joon-ho said the fish scene was inspired by The Godfather (1972).
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Barrandov Studio was chosen for the production. The studio completed construction of a one hundred meter (three hundred twenty-eight feet) long replica of the train.
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Wilford says to Curtis that he's the only person to ever walk the length of the train from tail to engine. This isn't true though, as both Timmy and Andy (and presumably other children before them) have also made that journey.
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Writer and Director Bong Joon-ho couldn't find the perfect actor for Wilford, until Producer Park Chan-wook recommended Ed Harris.
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There was no additional lighting used while filming the torchlight fight scene.
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According to Writer and Director Bong Joon-ho, Tilda Swinton played another role, as well as Mason. She played the woman trying to snatch the wine bottle from Yona when she and her dad are collecting Kronole lumps from the clubbers.
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Snowpiercer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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