‘Snowpiercer’ Season 2 trailer sees Sean Bean’s Mr Wilford face Layton to ‘right the reprehensible wrong’
At the New York Comic-Con, ‘Snowpiercer’ stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Sean Bean, Rowan Blanchard, and showrunner Graeme Manson appeared to talk about the second season on Thursday, October 8. Fans of the show also got to see a teaser for season 2.
The teaser begins with Bean, who will play Mr. Wilford, saying, “This is your conductor speaking. We are only moments away from righting the reprehensible wrong that has befallen our great engine.” As he says this, we see a second locomotive coming behind Snowpiercer and attaching itself to the train.
In the season finale, '994 Cars', we found out that there was another train out in the world filled with supplies that could save Snowpiercer from its eventual doom. However, Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly) and the rest of the train believed Mr. Wilford (Bean), the engineer who oversaw the construction of Snowpiercer, might be on the supply train.
The train, supposedly called Big Alice, has a crew of around 200. Diggs said that he was jealous as an actor of the crew that played the characters in the train because he felt they were “wild”.
The trailer sees carnage and battle and we see Layton (Daveed Diggs) and Mr. Wilford coming face to face finally. It ends with the ominous pronouncement in the backdrop: “One might think that this is where the revolution ends. When really, it’s only just begun.”
As per the official synopsis for season 2 of 'Snowpiercer', "Discovering Mr. Wilford is alive and headed their way on a rival train, Melanie risks going outside to prevent him from invading Snowpiercer." In season 2, an entirely new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalty to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology, and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing. While Layton battles Wilford for the soul of Snowpiercer, Melanie leads the charge on a shocking new discovery that could change the fate of humanity.
During the discussion, the moderator asked the panel about how far ahead they had thought about the story at the end of season 1 when things were in a perilous state, with the show now having arrived at a “collision of two different cultures”. Manson said that pretty early on in the writing process they decided, at the end of season 1, there would be the reveal of a second train, which gave them the opportunity to “build up the myth of Wilford”.
Bean, in the panel, said that the character was very “attractive” to him because he was so “rich and textured, and a fun guy to be with”. He said that Wilford is quite charming but not a very nice man, calling him “a bit of a psychopath”.
Blanchard, who plays Alexandra Cavill on the show, said her character wanted to be taken seriously when she encountered other people who had a nicer life than her. In the season 1 finale, we saw Melanie attempt to sever the connection between the supply train and Snowpiercer by going up on the roof. She was, unfortunately, knocked off and fell to the ground, leaving her out in the cold with no way to get back inside. This was unfortunate because the person who greeted Layton and Ruth (Alison Wright) was none other than Melanie's long lost daughter Alexandra who claimed Snowpiercer in the name of Wilford.
Connelly said that Melanie has now dropped her previous “facade” as is now on a mission. “We meet her in season 2, and she is sort of her true self, doing what she knows how to do best,” she said in the panel. Diggs said that in the early parts of season 2, Layton comes to a much better understanding of the kind of choices Melanie had to make.
The second season of ‘Snowpiercer’ will premiere on Monday, January 25, 2021, at 9 pm ET only on TNT.