Snowpiercer wraps in Prague
By Patrick Frater
Tue, 17 July 2012, 13:47 PM (HKT)
Production has wrapped in Prague, Czech Republic, on Snowpiercer 설국열차, the new film by South Korea's BONG Joon-ho 봉준호 | 奉俊昊.
The picture has an international cast headed by Chris EVANS, John HURT, Tilda SWINTON, Octavia SPENCER, Jamie BELL and Ewan BREMNER. Korea's SONG Gang-ho 송강호 | 宋康昊 and KO Ah-seong 고아성 appear in supporting roles.
The film is an adaptation of a French graphic novel Le Transperceneige (pictured) about a group of travellers on a train who are the last survivors of a new ice age.
Some remaining scenes may now shoot in South Korea.
Production is by PARK Chan-wook 박찬욱 | 朴贊郁 through his Moho Films 모호필름 company with CJ E&M Corp 씨제이이앤엠 주식회사 now set as the film's principal financier, South Korean distributor and international sales agent. Stillking Films is the line producer in the Czech Republic, where it shot largely in the Barrandov Studios.
Snowpiercer's budget is now set at close to $40 million, making it more expensive than CJ's My Way 마이 웨이 (2011), but still significantly less expensive than the official $80 million budget of Showbox/Mediaplex's D-War 디워 (2007), directed by SHIM Hyung-rae 심형래 | 沈烔來.