As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Academy Award winner Brad Pitt is set to star in David Leitch’s thriller Bullet Train. Bullet Train is
“Based on the popular Japanese book Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, Bullet Train centers on a group of hitmen and assassins with conflicting motives on a train in Tokyo. The project has been tonally described as Speed, the Keanu Reeves action film set on a bus, meets Non-Stop, the 2014 Liam Neeson thriller set on a plane. Sources say that Pitt will play an American hitman named Ladybug.”
Despite the COVID-19 stoppages in film productions, filming is set to begin in the fall. Antoine Fuqua, who originally developed the project, is producing alongside Leitch and Kelly McCormick via their 87 North production company.
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