Blimey, Bong Joon-ho isn’t lazing around when it comes to casting his new indie drama Snow Piercer. Just this last weekend it was revealed that he’s tempted Chris Evans away from shield-slinging for a while to star, and now comes word that Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell are in talks to join him.
Korean director Bong is making his US directorial debut with the film (though it’ll shoot in Prague this coming March), and what we know about the plot so far has a train full of passengers trying to co-exist as they make their way through a frigid world of snow and ice. Bong wrote the script with fellow Korean filmmaking favourite Park Chan-Wook, and Park is producing.
The cold weather should suit Swinton, who embodied the White Witch for the Narnia films. She’s currently enjoying a BAFTA nomination for her role in tough drama We Need To Talk About Kevin and will next be seen in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom.
Bell can be heard rather than seen (though he did do the performance capture work for the movie) in Tintin and co-stars with Sam Worthington and Elizabeth Banks in Man On A Ledge, which will arrive here on February 3.