It ’s been a long and meandering post - revelatory train ride around the humanity to get us where we are today . TBS has snatched up the TV adaptation of Bong Joon - ho ’s Snowpiercer and revealed its prescribed release date . It ’s now specify to come out out in 2020 , with two seasons guaranteed . By the time it really air out , the show will have been in talk of the town for five years . In that time , Snowpiercer has seen it all : buffer reshoots , a new showrunner , public squabbling , and a lingering motion of whether it ’s really deserving it .

WarnerMedia announced at Upfront that Snowpiercer will move from TNT to TBS , and that the show has already been renew for a second season . It asterisk Jennifer Connelly ( Alita : Battle Angel ) and Daveed Diggs ( Hamilton ) , alongside Alison Wright , Steven Ogg , Susan Park , Iddo Goldberg , Katie McGuinness , Sam Otto , Roberto Urbina , and others ( fit in toDeadline , Rowan Blanchard will become a series regular in season two ) . WarnerMedia reportedlyshowed a trailerduring the event , but it has n’t been made public yet .

WarnerMediaUpfrontshowed off a trailer for Snowpiercer , which looks gorgeous but I still have no idea how they ’re going to carry it to a series .

Tilda Swinton points her way to a vague and confusing future in the Snowpiercer film.Image: Universal Pictures

— Alex Zalben ( @azalben)May 15 , 2019

The serial is designed to be a sonant reboot of the original 2013 film , which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton . It takes spot seven years after a climate catastrophe forced the remnants of humanity to live on inside a massive caravan that constantly circle the earth . It ’s as much a science fabrication epic as it is an exploration of division war , as the wagon train ’s citizen are segregate ground on economical status . The original film was a surprising success , and rumors of a goggle box show adaptation have been going onsince at least 2015 .

Things finally started do together in November 2016 , when TNT order a pilot for the potential serial publication . It would be helmed by Josh Friedman ( War of the Worlds , Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles ) , with Scott Derrickson ( Doctor Strange ) manoeuver the pilot program . However , the train ended up getting blindsided by an avalanche . In February 2018 , it wasunexpectedly announcedthat Orphan Black co - creator Graeme Manson would be taking over as showrunner , with TNT citing creative differences with Friedman . However , Friedman claims he was pushed out , for refuse to be “ compliant ” and give his visual sensation for the web ’s need .

Hold up : It keeps going . Just a few months subsequently , Derrickson announce that he would not return for what he claim were “ extreme reshoots ” for the pilot . James Hawes ( Black Mirror ) ended up replacing him . In a statement onTwitter , Derrickson denounced Manson ’s extensive changes . He shout Friedman ’s original script the best he ’s ever take , and suppose “ the feature - length archetype I made from that book may be my best work . ”

The 72 - Thomas Nelson Page Snowpiercer TV pilot playscript by@Josh_Friedmanis the good I ’ve ever read . The feature - distance original I made from that handwriting may be my best employment .

The fresh show runner has a radically unlike imagination for the show . I am forgoing my option to send the uttermost reshoots .

— N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S ( @scottderrickson)June 29 , 2018

Ogg , who was added to the shape last August , hadpreviously saidSnowpiercer would debut in June 2019 , which has since been retool to fountain 2020 . In the meantime , agraphic novel prequelto the original comics and motion picture is set to come out in September , though it does n’t look to be connected to the show .

I struggle to believe what ’s travel to fall out between now and 2020 , afford how long and disturb this production process has been — all for a serial based on a pic that was surprising and hefty at the time , but , after several interpose years filled with post - apocalyptic dramas , no longer feels quite so novel . At this point , it ’s arduous to say what the final merchandise of Snowpiercer is going to look like , whether it can work as a serial , and whether the populace will care any longer .

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