Hamilton star Daveed Diggs, who won a Tony for his performance as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, will top the cast of the upcoming TNT series Snowpiercer, based on Bong Joon Ho's film adaptation of the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. IndieWire reported that Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) will direct the pilot, with Diggs playing the role of Layton Well. Derrickson will also serve as executive producer, along with writer/showrunner Josh Friedman, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios; and the original film's Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae-hun and Dooho Choi.
