Brad Pitt punches his ticket on the assassin express in Bullet Train trailer
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry and Zazie Beetz make a few stops with the Oscar winner in the new action comedy from David Leitch
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Commutes are already killer enough, so why not try a sleek bullet train full of bloodthirsty assassins? That seems to be the sentiment in the trailer for Sony Pictures’ Bullet Train, a fresh action comedy starring Brad Pitt and directed by former stuntman turned action film aficionado David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde).
Based on the novel Maria Beetle by Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train follows Brad Pitt as Ladybug, a semi-retired assassin who hops on a bullet train, only to face a few other peers onboard. There’s Prince (Joey King), Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry), and Hornet (Zazie Beetz).
Another passenger on the train is Kimura (Andrew Koji), a father ready to enact his revenge after Prince puts his young son in a coma. The situation begins to devolve into chaos as the killers realize their individual assignments might all be connected.
That chaos makes itself known in the many fight scenes set against the Bee Gees’ jaunty “Staying Alive.” There’s a bucket hat wearing Pitt being delightfully flummoxed by his situation as his efforts are thwarted by Bad Bunny’s character. Meanwhile, British lads Johnson and Henry seem to be having a briefcase related issue and Michael Shannon appears briefly as an assassin boss of some kind (John Wick’s The Bowery King might have some competition).
With a film filled with star-studded assassins, there’s also a large ensemble cast that includes Logan Lerman, Masi Oka, Hiroyuki Sanada, Karen Fukuhara and Sandra Bullock. Originally, Bullock’s role of Pitt’s shadowy, ‘behind the screen’ character was meant for method actor to end all method actors Lady Gaga, but she dropped out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with House of Gucci. No doubt that Gaga would have used her method acting to replicate Joan Cusack’s own assassin secretary from Grosse Pointe Blank and for that, we mourn.
The film is being produced by Columbia Pictures, 87North Productions and Fuqua Films with Leitch working as a producer along with Antonine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven), Kelly McCormick (Hobbs & Shaw), and Kat Samick (The Equalizer).
Hop aboard Bullet Train when it’s released in theaters on July 15.
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And Bad Bunny? Down.
Looks like it could be fun – I think Brad Pitt is at his best in deadpan comedic mode, a la Ocean’s 11.
his character is Christopher Lee’s Fu Man Chu 0:39 he’s wearing a ring no professional killer wears a visible identifier the image is Poison Ivy who was the Mentat in Dune from the Wolverine movie set in Japan the setting is Joanna Cassidy in Blade Runner outside the stage door of the club which is the Yiddish Big Power brothel from that movie about a woman serial killer hunting the people who murdered her grandmother with the dark haired actress in the red dress who was Canadian and looked a little like Brooke Adams except wasn’t there were no portable phones in cyberpunk Blade Runner William Gibson’s Sprawl stories this is the New Rose Hotel she’s Rose Kolodny Lena Olin psychotic killer Gigolo Jane Blondie in Hanging on The Telephone the Wermacht interrogator in the telephone kiosk in the hotel in Allied where he leaves Marion Cottilard alone at the table and you can see the panic on her face like Amy Brennerman’s great great granddaughter of Cora Munro when she’s left alone in the automobile outside the hotel and the fire alarm goes off she’s the Chinese head of the chemical weapons proram they have her talking on the phone probably at a hotel in Hong Kong or Macau this is a threat to have her shot in the back guess what the reply is
Completely. I’d say Fight Club, Snatch, True Romance, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and even Inglorious Basterds are all excellent examples as well. And I know I’m missing some…dude is low key hilarious.
The Mexican, too.
Totally – also an incredible performance by James Gandolfini.
you’re forgetting burn after reading, arguably the funniest he’s ever been.
I thought he was funniest in Troy.
I accidentally replied to the wrong person, but you are absolutely correct.
And based on the trailer for The Lost City, he looks like he might be really funny in that too.
“I thought you might be worried…about the security…of your shit.”Sends me into a giggle fit every time.
He’s so goddamn funny in Burn After Reading
“Fight scenes set against the Bee Gees’ jaunty ‘Staying Alive.’” Ah yes, the fun, quirky kind of violence.
this post feels like it was written in another language, translated to English with google translate, and then reposted. Something just feels weird about the style. No?
It looks a little goofy.
This is the pot calling the kettle black…
Gives me a Guy Ritchie tryin’ to have fun vibe.And I never realized how much Johnny Knoxville sounds like Brad Pitt.
Distinct lack of Koji in the trailer (one shot?). But I’m here for this cast even though it looks a little silly.
This looks fun, so I have my fingers crossed that the Asians in the cast get to actually talk and have some character development. Not much on the trailer so far, but I hope the Asianness isn’t limited to the cool aesthetics.
This reminds me that I want to watch Gunpowder MilkshakeDear Hollywood, there are too many quirky action movies about assassins. Please eliminate three. p.s. I am not a crackpot
No more apples in the vending machine please
Am I mistaken or is this a Japanese cover of Staying Alive? Which makes the trailer awesome.
Yeah. This is the antidote to the grim-dark-edgy covers that every other trailer does.
Oh hell yes. A villainous, long-haired, tattooed, katana-wielding Michael Shannon was definitely missing from my life!