Chris Evans' acclaimed dystopian sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer is now available to stream for free in the UK.
Released in 2013, the movie marks director Bong Joon-ho's English-language debut, with the Parasite filmmaker also co-writing the script with Kelly Masterson.
An adaptation of the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, Snowpiercer has now been added to ITV's streaming platform ITVX, where it can be watched for free.
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Certified Fresh on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a score of 94%, critics have praised the film as "an audaciously ambitious action spectacular".
Snowpiercer is set in 2031. After a climate engineering attempt to counteract global warming went awry, the last survivors escaped freezing to death by boarding a bullet train in perpetual motion on a globe-encircling track.
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Aboard the train, passengers are segregated by class in an unequal resource distribution system that sees the tail stowaways enslaved and surviving on cockroach protein bars.
The wealth-poor divide gives rise to a revolt, with Curtis Everett (Evans) emerging as the leader of the revolution.
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The star-studded movie also features Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, and Song Kang-ho, among others.
A TV series, also titled Snowpiercer, reboots the events of the film and the graphic novel, focusing on what happened seven years after the world froze over.
Featuring Bong Joon-ho amongst its executive producers, the series was developed by Josh Friedman and Graeme Manson and ran for four seasons, aired between 2020 and 2024.
Snowpiercer the movie is available to stream on ITVX in the UK. All four seasons of the TV show will be available on the same platform from March 9.
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