Ahead of even its series premiere, TNT’s Snowpiercer has cast Game of Thrones alum Sean Bean as a series regular for season 2.
Snowpiercer the TV series has had a bit of a tumultuous road so far. Josh Friedman, who wrote the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate film, wrote the pilot and was set to serve as showrunner. However, he was then replaced by Orphan Black co-creator Graeme Manson last year, in a move that turned out to be quite contentious. Then, director Scott Derrickson, director of Doctor Strange, followed Friedman’s exit due to a “radically different vision” from Manson and was replaced by James Hawes, known for his work on Doctor Who.
Additionally, though it had been initially developed at TNT with a two season order, Warner Media (which owns TNT, among many other networks) decided to move it over to TBS. Then, Warner Media reversed that decision and moved the show back to TNT.
And all this before the series even premieres.
While we may still be waiting on Snowpiercer to actually premiere, the post-apocalyptic show has already started making moves for its second season.
Deadline reported today that Sean Bean — best known for his role as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, and also for dying in every single role he’s ever taken — has joined the show for its second season as a series regular.
Details of Sean Bean’s character are being kept under wraps, though given his recent reveal that he will no longer be taking roles in which his character will die, it seems likely that he’ll survive at least through Snowpiercer’s second season.
Snowpiercer is an adaptation of the 2014 Bong Joon-ho film of the same name, which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton. Similar to the film, the TV show is set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland. Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a 1001 car, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe.
Likewise similar to Bong Joon-ho’s film, class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this perpetually-moving, post-apocalyptic train.
The TV version stars Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connolly in Evans’ and Swinton’s roles, respectively. Joining Diggs and Connolly are Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, Susan Park, Iddo Goldberg, Katie McGuinness, Lena Hall, Annalise Basso, Sam Otto, Roberto Urbina, Sheila Vand and Jaylin Fletcher.
Snowpiercer will premiere on TNT (for now…) in spring 2020.
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