Watch the trailer for Brad Pitt’s new assassin movie Bullet Train

Virgin Radio

4 Mar 2022, 08:43

Does the idea of an action film by the director of Deadpool 2, in which Brad Pitt plays an assassin surrounded by other assassins on a Japanese bullet train, appeal to you? Because it does to us! 

Hooray then, that Bullet Train, the new movie from David Leitch, is heading to cinemas this summer. As well as Deadpool 2, Leitch also directed action flicks Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, as well as co-directing Keanu Reeves in the brilliant John Wick. 

Now he is in charge of bringing Kōtarō Isaka’s 2010 novel to the big screen. 

In the film, Oscar-winner Brad Pitt is Ladybug, a trained killer who wants to give up the game but is pulled back in by his handler Maria Beetle (played by fellow Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock) to collect a briefcase on a bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka. 

“Every job I do, somebody dies. I’m not that guy anymore,” Pitt’s character says in the trailer. Bullock’s Maria Beetle replies: “Some conflicts require a gun.”

The problem is that, once onboard, he discovers he’s amongst a whole bunch of other competing assassins. Before too long, it’s a full-on battle for survival, as it turns out that their objectives are connected.

The trailer shows a fight in a quiet carriage, knife fights, and all sorts of very stylish action, all soundtracked by a Japanese cover of Stayin’ Alive by The Bee Gees. Have a look here: 

Along with Pitt and Bullock, the cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who played the title role in Kick-Ass, and Emmy Award-nominated Bryan Tyree Henry. 

Also in the movie are Zazie Beetz, legendary Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, Karen Fukuhara, Logan Lerman, and Michael Shannon, and Joey King, who was in The Kissing Booth and its two sequels, and was was nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her starring role in the crime drama series The Act.

Bullet Train is to hit cinema screens on July 15th, 2022.