‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4 Greenlit Ahead Of Season 3 Premiere
After a famously bumpy development period, TNT’sSnowpiercerwill continue to chug along for a while longer: the network has handed the series a fresh renewal, continuing itstraditionof giving a greenlight to an advance season before the impending season’s premiere even hits the airwaves. Actually, I guess “airwaves” aren’t technically involved since TNT is a cable network. But you know what I mean. Watch a video below of starDaveed DiggsannouncingSnowpiercerseason 4.
“We have been greenlit for season 4!” Diggs yells excitedly in the video, transitioning into something of a primal scream and thanking the show’s “loyal fans.” He went on: “Obviously, this wouldn’t have happened without you. If you liked season 1 and 2, I have no reason to believe you won’t love season 3 and 4. It only gets bigger and more Snowpiercery-er.”
Snowpiercerseason 3 is wrapping up production now, and does not yet have a planned premiere date. The second season concluded with Diggs' character Layton commandeering a so-called “pirate train” to break off from the main Snowpiercer vehicle in an attempt to locateJennifer Connelly’s Melanie, only to make a shocking discovery. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, “season three will pick up shortly after that and also continue to follow Wilford (Sean Bean) as he tries to consolidate control over the Snowpiercer.”
The outlet also reports thatArchie Panjabi(The Good Wife) andChelsea Harris(Designated Survivor) will join the series for the third season, andMike O’Malley(The Good Place) has been upped to a series regular after recurring in the first two seasons.
Based on the 2013 French graphic novel and set seven years before the events ofBong Joon-ho’s movie adaptation,Snowpiercertakes place after an extinction-level event has wiped out most of humanity and is set on board a perpetually moving train which circles the planet, containing 1001 cars full of humans who have been separated into distinct social classes.
“I’m in This Thing”
In a recent interview withKCRW’s The Business, Diggs spoke about the wave of work he took on right afterHamiltonbecame a phenomenon:
“Obviously, I was terrified that I was never going to work again. But also, there were a ton of opportunities coming my way that I didn’t have any frame of reference for and I never thought I would get. I also genuinely wanted to do all these things, so I said a lot of ‘yeses,’ and I’m still trying to finish some of those contractual obligations.”
When host Kim Masters asked Diggs if he had signed on for a certain number of seasons ofSnowpiercer, he replied, “Oh yeah. I won’t get into it, but I’m here. I’m in this thing.”
