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Snowpiercer – Watch Chris Evans in the Red Band Trailer Now!

Hey, kids, dystopian class warfare on a train! In the snow! With Chris Evans!

Captain America doesn’t really have a lot of luck with riding trains in the winter (his friend Bucky died on one… oh wait…), but this time, it’s a longer ride and it looks really intense. Snowpiercer is an action thriller set in our not-so-distant future after a failed global warming experiment has wiped out most of the Earth’s population, placing the survivors aboard a train fueled by a perpetual motion engine, racing at top speed as the wintery world crumbles around them. It all sounds a little forced and over the top conceptually, but from the looks of it, I don’t think we’ll mind. It’s a South Korean-American film based on a French graphic novel, so it technically counts as a comic book movie minus the tights or anything star-spangled, despite Evans’ presence.

Of course, what’s most important is what’s going on inside the Snowpiercer train itself. It seems that the remnants of mankind have set up a hierarchical system that separates people by classes. The few rich live a posh lifestyle up front while the poor masses huddle in the back of the train, growing hungry and restless by the minute. In between, there’s apparently an aquarium car, a knitting in the garden car, and a machine gun-toting preschool teacher car.

Directed by Bong Joon-Ho, Snowpiercer stars Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris, John Hurt and Tilda Swinton, and looks like one hell of a ride.

Snowpiercer arrives at US stations on June 27th.

Image: Weinstein Company
Video: Yahoo! Movies

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