Octavia Spencer Joins Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snow Piercer’

Hot on the heels of winning a Broadcast Film Critics Award, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her role in ‘The Help,’  Heat Vision bring word that Octavia Spencer has joined the cast of ‘Snow Piercer,’ a post-apocalyptic drama by writer/director Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Mother) and producer Chan wook-Park (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance). The film is described as ”set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.”

Spencer would apparently play a passenger on the train who joins the revolt in order to save her son.  The film also stars Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Chris Evans, John Hurt, and Song Kang-Ho, who previously starred in Bong’s equally fantastic ‘The Host’ and ‘Memories Of Murder.’ ‘Snow Piercer’ marks Bong Joon-ho’s English language debut. The film is based on a French graphic novel titled ‘Le Transperceneige.’ All signs point towards this being a gem!