Snowpiercer To Be Released Uncut In The U.S.

is reporting that Snowpiercer will see a limited uncut release in the United States.Snowpiercer‘s United States release has been held up over a disagreement between director Bong Joon-Ho and distributor Harvey Weinstein over edits Weinstein wanted to make to the film to reduce its two and one half hours length.  The two finally reached a compromise where Joon-Ho’s original film will go unedited, but will see a much smaller release than originally planned.Snowpiercer is a Korean sci-fi/action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legarnd and Jean-Marc Rochette. In Snowpiercer, in a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.Snowpiercer stars Captain America‘s Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton and Octavia Butler. Bong Joon-ho, the film’s director, is best known in the united states for his films The Host and Mother.Snowpiercer has done well critically and financially in Korea and France, and looks like a very different kind of comic book film. You can check out the trailer below.