Bullet Train | David Leitch | 2022

Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film starring Brad Pitt as a former assassin who must battle fellow killers while riding a Shinkansen (a Japanese bullet train). The film, which was the initiative of producer Antoine Fuqua, is directed by David Leitch, based on a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz that adapts the Japanese novel Maria Beetle (published in English as Bullet Train) by Kōtarō Isaka. In addition to Pitt, the film’s ensemble cast features Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Bad Bunny (Benito A. Martínez Ocasio), and Sandra Bullock.

Principal photography began in Los Angeles in November 2020 and wrapped in March 2021. Bullet Train premiered in Paris on July 18, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States by Sony Pictures on August 5, 2022. The film has grossed $114.5 million on a production budget of about $90 million, and received mixed reviews from critics.