‘Snowpiercer’ Season 2 Teaser Introduces Sean Bean As Mr. Wilford
No need for warnings – winter is here. And it has broughtSean Beanwith it. TheGame of Thronesstar makes his debut in TNT’sSnowpiercerin the key role of Mr. Wilford, the inventor of Snowpiercer’s perpetual engine. Watch theSnowpiercerseason 2 teaser.
Snowpiercer Season 2 Teaser
“First there was order. Then there was revolution. Now there is Mr. Wilford,” theSnowpiercerseason 2 teaser declares, setting up quite an introduction for Bean as Mr. Wilford, the inventor of the perpetual engine of the train that keeps humanity alive in a frozen world. Presented as the Big Bad for season 2, Mr. Wilford presents an interesting conflict forJennifer Connelly’s Melanie Cavill, who was acting in Mr. Wilford’s place in season 1 while still keeping his moniker. Melanie doesn’t have a friendly relationship with Mr. Wilford – she’s the real engineer and creator of Snowpiercer, but Wilford took all the credit. She also left him to die when the long survival journey began, so maybe they can call it even.
Bean is a nice piece of stunt-casting forSnowpiercerthat we learned aboutearlier this summer, though this role complicates theGame of ThronesandLord of the Ringsactor’s reputation of frequent onscreen deaths — the character is played by Ed Harris in Bong Joon-ho’s film, which takes place several years after the events of the series, who is very much alive.
The newSnowpiercerseason 2 teaser plants the seeds for a revolution led byDaveed Diggs' Andre Layton, as well as confirms the January 2021 premiere date for season 2, which has been in the can for a while. So long that showrunnerGraeme Mansonalready has a plan for season 3, tellingColliderback in June, “I think we have a good sense of what our Season 3 could be. It would be more about figuring out a Season 3 ending, whether it’s a cliffhanger to come back again, or not. I’m not sure. The end point, that flagpole that we put up, hopefully moves down the road with more seasons. Or you stick to that end point and figure out a reboot of the characters and the train. I’m not sure what that would look like.”
