The Snowpiercer TV series will retain the locomotive-based premise of the original film. Hamilton‘s David Diggs is playing the series’ protagonist Layton Well, a prisoner who becomes a reluctant participant in the class struggle aboard the train.
TNT ordered the Snowpiercer TV show pilot episode in November of last year, with Doctor Strange’s Scott Derrickson set to helm the pilot.
However, there have been a number of successful movies-turned TV series, from shows as old as M*A*S*H* to recent productions like Hannibal and Fargo.
Based on a French graphic novel, the film stars Chris Evans as a passenger leading a revolution aboard a train traveling through the icy post-apocalyptic wasteland.