The preparatory production began in Tyrol, Austria during mid-March for one day to shoot some snowy scenery on the Hintertux Glacier, which made for excellent conditions and perfect weather.
(meta data) TITLE: Snowpiercer in Tirol | Home | Cine Tirol 16 captures 15 Oct 2012 - 03 Apr 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine. Collection: Wide Crawl started September 2012 Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from September 2012. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20121015155415/http://www.cinetirol.com/en/home/snowpiercer-in-tirol-1664477.html Snowpiercer in TirolKorean Director Bong Joon-Ho starts shooting his movie "Snowpiercer" in Tirol The very first shooting day for "Snowpiercer" took place on Hintertux Glacier in Tirol mid of March. Excellent conditions, perfect weather and extremely professional support by the team of Hintertux Glacier made it a remarkable start of principal shooting. The story: Set in an post-apocalyptic world, a world war has ravaged the world which is now covered completely in snow. The only means for survival is to board the Transperceneige (snow train), but the train only has 1001 coaches. On the train, the poor wallow in misery in the lower decks, while the rich lives in decadence in the upper decks. Then their two worlds start to collide ... Cast: Chris Evans, Song Kang-Ho, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ko Ah-Sung Korean Director Bong Joon-Ho was selected as the president of the Caméra d'or jury during the 2011 (64th) Cannes Film Festival. "Snowpiercer" is produced by Snowpiercer LLC., South Korea in co-production with Stillking Films Prague / Los Angeles, supported by Cine Tirol Film Commission. Picture: TJ Park (Producer), Sung Ho Nam (Production Manager), Dooho Choi (Co-Producer), Alex Hong (DoP), Thomas Fuchs (Cine Tirol), Bong Joon-Ho (Director), Robert Bernacchi (Co-Producer) "Snowpiercer" on location print article tell a friend Member of Cine Tirol Film Commission Maria-Theresien-Strasse 55 6010 Innsbruck • Österreich +43.512.5320-182t +43.512.5320-200f Find Locations Find your Location to select region, topic or category 8°C/ 46F 9°C/ 48F © 2012 Tirol Werbung (meta data) TITLE: The glaciers win in "Snowpiercer", but at what cost? | GlacierHub (meta data) AUTHOR: http://glacierhub.org/author/nick-smith/ 16 captures 29 Aug 2014 - 03 Apr 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20140829020705/http://glacierhub.org:80/2014/07/10/the-glaciers-win-in-snowpiercer-but-at-what-cost/ # The glaciers win in "Snowpiercer", but at what cost? Posted by Nick Smith on Jul 10, 2014 Humanity struggles to stay warm in a train speeding around a frozen Earth in "Snowpiercer". (© 2013 – RADiUS/TWC) Remember when Godzilla used to be scary? Climate change horror seems to be the new go-to disaster for Hollywood films as of late. Unlike giant floods, tornados or even Godzilla, the world freezing over affects everyone at once. There might be an escape from a giant atomic lizard, but when the temperatures change, there's nothing we can do as a species but adapt. That adaptation comes in the form of a speeding, circumnavigating train in the new movie Snowpiercer. The exposition in the opening minutes of the movie sets up the scenario: to counteract warming global temperatures, scientists in the present day developed a chemical that will cool the earth when released into the atmosphere. It worked a little too well. What's left of humanity is stuffed into a train, divided so neatly into class sections it would make a political science sophomore blush. The poor are crammed into industrialized bunk beds in the tail section while the rich at the front of the train enjoy saunas, sushi and never-ending raves. After spending 17 years in the squalid back of the train eating gelatinous black protein blocks, Curtis, the film's lead (Captain America's Chris Evans), reluctantly leads an uprising to take over the engine. What's interesting about Snowpiercer isn't so much the setting but that climate change horror seemed to be playing a larger role in movies right now. As New Yorker film critic David Denby wrote about the Snowpiercer, "The current designers of awe, in Hollywood and elsewhere, have gone back to the Apocalypse. They've created what might be called the Seven Horsemen of the Multiplex: aliens, pandemics, floods, ice, comets and other interplanetary flotsam, nuclear war, and zombies." That fourth one, ice, popped up in last year's The Colony, which imagines humanity living underground after the world freezes over once climate-changing weather machines break down. In both films, the fear seems to come from geoenginnering gone wrong as much as it does from a permanent Ice Age. (In some sense, this is also what the mega-hit Frozen is about.) On location at the Hintertux glacier in Austria. (from left) TJ Park (Producer), Sung Ho Nam (Production Manager), Dooho Choi (Co-Producer), Alex Hong (DoP), Thomas Fuchs (Cine Tirol), Bong Joon-Ho (Director), Robert Bernacchi (Co-Producer). (Cine Tirol Film Commission) In an odd way, Snowpiercer highlights the seriousness of glacial retreat; only a cosmically huge event is capable of bringing them back. One scene in the movie features a shot of the Hintertux glacier in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. Though the movie takes place in 2031, the glacier will almost certainly be visibly smaller by time that year actually rolls around. Over Independence Day weekend, Snowpiercer only took in a little over a million dollars at the box office. In South Korea, where it was co-produced, the movie made nearly $60 million, setting a new record in that country. This was the first English-language production for Snowpiercer's director, Joon-ho Bong, whose monster movie The Host achieved popularity in the U.S. when it was released in 2006. Whether the most expensive Korean movie ever made finds popularity here in America (which accounts for only 2 percent of worldwide box office receipts so far), remains to be seen. Audiences may instead choose to find comfort this summer in a much more comforting disaster from the east: Godzilla. ### Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. 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Production.:Filming.
Bong filmed "Snowpiercer" with 35mm film in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. On 3 April 2012, principal photography had officially begun in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Barrandov Studios on gimbals on its interconnected sound-stages after preparatory filming in the production occurred at the end of March, with a said budget near to $42 million, which was the largest film budget of all time for any film with Korean investors. On August 2011 the studio was determined as the shooting location and on October 2011, Bong and his production team moved to the Czech Republic. During the period of November 2011 to April 2012, the key members of the crew were secured and confirmed, those being: Ondřej Nekvasil, Eric Durst, Julian Spencer and Marco Beltrami.