Joon-ho Bong

Date of Birth

1969-09-14

Place of Birth

Daegu, South Korea

Known for

Doomsday Book, Memories

Most Popular Stories

Snowpiercer season 4 was dropped by TNT and has been searching for a new home for over a year. Now it has one at AMC

Snowpiercer season 4 on track at TNT

Posted 5 years ago

Just as production for Snowpiercer season 3 is coming to a close, TNT has announced a season 4 renewal for the post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama. “Snowpiercer has been an incredibly successful series for us that continues to capture the imagination of viewers,...

Climb aboard a new Snowpiercer trailer ahead of the series’ May 17 premiere

Posted 6 years ago

Attention passengers, TNT has just given a new trailer for their SNOWPIERCER television series the go ahead to make tracks online. Based upon Bong Joon-ho's SNOWPIERCER and the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, the new show is set seven years after...

Snowpiercer series premiere moved up two weeks as new trailer is released

Posted 6 years ago

With television productions being shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic and hearing news almost everyday of delays, this next bit of news is refreshing. TNT has announced that their TV adaptation of SNOWPIERCER will actually premiere two weeks earlier than originally anticipated....

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Snowpiercer is on a collision course to television

Posted 11 years ago

Joon-ho Bong's 2013 dystopian flick SNOWPIERCER has, rather appropriately, been optioned by Tomorrow Studios. They plan on developing the script into a TV series, to be written by Josh Friedman. Tomorrow's Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements will executive produce along with Bong and his...

Snowpiercer is next to take the TV series route

Posted 11 years ago

Add SNOWPIERCER to the list of feature films being adapted for the small screen, as Tomorrow Studios has optioned the rights to the 2013 Bong Joon Ho movie to become a television series. Josh Friedman (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and WAR...

Tilda Swinton to reteam with her Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho

Posted 11 years ago

SNOWPIERCER was one of my favorite films from 2014, so I'm more than a little excited that star Tilda Swinton is making plans to reteam with director Bong Joon-ho. While at the Busan Film Festival to promote Luca Guadagnino's A...

Tilda Swinton teases what a prequel to Snowpiercer might be like

Posted 12 years ago

Taking place in a dystopian future where a train seems to carry the last traces of human life, SNOWPIERCER proved to be one of the strongest vehicles (so to speak) for Chris Evans, and one of the greatest films of...

The F*ckin Black Sheep: Snowpiercer (2014)

Posted 12 years ago

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We’re hoping this column will...

Top 10 Must See Korean Films (Video Edition)

Posted 12 years ago

SNOWPIERCER hits theaters today and is instantly a must see film for fans of scifi, action, and just all around solid movies. Since the film is in English, many may not realize it is actually a South Korean film and...

Review: Snowpiercer

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In the not-too-distant future, the last survivors of a cataclysmic new ice age ride a powerful locomotive known as the Snowpiercer. While the rich and powerful enjoy luxurious lives at the head of the train, the poor and bedraggled...

First official US trailer for Snowpiercer is here!

Posted 12 years ago

Bong Joon-Ho’s (THE HOST, MOTHER) latest film, SNOWPIERCER, has gone through quite the journey to make its way to our theaters. Early on, there was talk of the movie being cut down to a more “manageable” time. Fortunately, the director...

Crazy New Red Band Trailer For Snowpiercer Starring Chris Evans

Posted 12 years ago

This is going to be good… If you're not sold on director Joon-ho Bong's SNOWPIERCER yet, you should watch this red band trailer. The story goes that a new ice age caused by a failed experiment to stop global warming...

Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer will be released uncut, but in a limited capacity

Posted 13 years ago

Director Bong Joon-Ho's SNOWPIERCER has had a timultuous ride to the theaters, which is metaphoric given the film's storyline. The film was bought by Harvey Weinstein in 2012 "on the basis of script and some sample footage" and decided to...