PREVIEW: Bullet Train (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Joey King (The Princess), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals), Andrew Koji (Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine), Michael Shannon (Knives Out), Bad Bunny (Fast & Furious 9), Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality), Zazie Beetz (Joker), Logan Lerman (Fury), Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad), Masi Oka (The Meg), Pasha D. Lychnikoff (Chernobyl Diaries), Miraj Grbić (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Leitch (Atomic Blonde), director, producer; Zak Olkewicz (Fear Street: Part 2 – 1978), writer; Antoine Fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen) and Kelly McCormick (Nobody), producers; Dominic Lewis (Fist Fight), composer; Jonathan Sela (John Wick), cinematographer; Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Ladybug (Pitt) is an assassin who’s eager to put his violent lifestyle behind him, until he is given a mission that has him boarding a bullet train in Japan, along with numerous other assassins who all have similar, but conflicting, goals. Now, Ladybug must fight his way through countless adversaries in order to complete the mission, and come out alive…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Brad Pitt leads a strong ensemble of character actors in this wild and violent action-comedy set on the world’s fastest train.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 3RD AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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