Bullet Train
Short description
Bullet Train follows Ladybug, an assassin whose recent jobs have gone badly wrong and who wants nothing more than to get through his next assignment quietly. His task is simple enough: board a high-speed train in Japan, take a briefcase, and step off at an intermediate stop. The problem is that the train is crowded with other killers, each pursuing goals of their own that turn out to be tangled up with his. What should have been an easy job becomes a fight for survival aboard a train that will not stop.
The film is based on Kōtarō Isaka's novel Maria Beetle and was directed by David Leitch, working from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz. It is the seventh feature Leitch directed, arriving between Hobbs & Shaw and The Fall Guy, and it continues his work in action cinema. Brad Pitt plays Ladybug, with Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji and Hiroyuki Sanada among the main cast.
Released in July 2022, Bullet Train cost around 90 million dollars and earned roughly 239 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.3 from about 529,000 votes, and on TMDB it has 7.4 from roughly 7,900 votes. Critics were less taken with it, giving it 5.5 from 342 reviews, so audiences responded more warmly than reviewers did.
What's left behind the scenes
- Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the film was shot in pavilions at a film studio in Los Angeles.
- Joey King practiced a British accent for three hours a day.
- Ryan Reynolds’ cameo appearance was filmed remotely while he was on the set of “The Adam Project.” As producer Kelly McCormick jokingly noted, Reynolds was thus returning the favor to Pitt, who appeared in a two-second role in “Deadpool 2.”
- The scene where Lemon, played by Brian Tyree Henry, catches the Head’s (Logan Lerman) head during a car chase was improvised. Lerman pretended to be unconscious for added realism.
- Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the film, which takes place in a wide variety of locations, was shot in only two soundstages at a studio in Los Angeles.
- During a fight in the dining car, a bottle of Miraval wine flashes on the screen at the counter. This brand of wine is bottled at Brad Pitt's estate in France.
- Despite their speed, high-speed trains in Japan are characterized by a quiet noise level in the passenger cabin and a smooth ride. This is why they did without a gimbal, which is usually used to show the movement of ships and trains, during filming.
- Ryan Reynolds' brief, episodic appearance on screen was filmed "remotely" while he was on the set of Sean Levy's 2022 film "The Adam Project." As producer Kelly McCormick jokingly noted, Reynolds was thus "returning the favor" to Pitt, who appeared in a two-second role in David Leitch's "Deadpool 2" in 2018.
- During the performance of the stunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson was injured and fainted.
- According to stunt coordinator Greg Rementer, Brad Pitt performed 95% of his own stunts.
- High-speed trains in Japan are characterized by low noise levels and smooth running. This is why a gimbal, usually used to show the movement of ships and trains, was not used during filming.
- Brad Pitt's character states that he has an excellent memory for faces, yet he cannot remember the Wolf (Bad Bunny). In real life, Pitt has prosopagnosia.
- Brad Pitt's character states that he has an excellent memory for faces, yet he can't remember the Wolf (played by Bad Bunny). In reality, Pitt suffers from prosopagnosia (a disorder of facial perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces is lost, but the ability to recognize objects is preserved). The actor revealed in an interview that to recognize a person, he needs to remember the situation and circumstances of their acquaintance – just like his character in this film.
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