Daveed Diggs to star in TNT’s Snowpiercer pilot
It’s a busy upfronts season for Hamilton star Daveed Diggs. The show he executive produces, The Mayor, is heading to ABC, and now Turner announced that he has been cast as the star of its television adaptation of Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer. Diggs will be a character named Layton Well, described as a “a prisoner barely surviving the harsh conditions in the tail end of the train“ barreling through a dystopian tundra. Well will eventually be a part of the resistance, but initially “spends his days sniffing the industrial-waste-turned-drug Chronole and tending to his cage full of rats.“