Here’s a fun premise: John Wick meets Deadpool in an action-thriller about a Japanese bullet train loaded with professional assassins, fighting it out over a single briefcase.

Throw in some slick visuals and an all-star cast to make any studio drool, and you have Bullet Train, the latest film from David Leitch – appropriately, the co-director of the aforementioned John Wick and solo helmer of Deadpool 2as well as Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious: Hobbs & ShawThe film is based on Kōtarō Isaka’s 2010 bestselling Japanese novel of the same name, which takes place inside a train going from Tokyo to Morioka.

Now, if that somehow wasn’t enough to get you very excited for its release, Bullet Train is led by none other than Brad Pitt as a goofy and detached assassin.

Joining him are Aaron Taylor-Johnson sporting a Cockney accent (not on the level of Hugh Grant’s turn in The Gentlemen, but close), Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals, Godzilla vs Kong), Zazie Beetz (The Harder They Fall, Joker), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine, Mortal Kombat), Karen Fukuhara (The Boys), Joey King (Slenderman, Welcome to the Blumhouse), Logan Lerman (Shirley, Hunters), Michael Shannon in an impressive wig (Knives Out, Nine Perfect Strangers), Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, and Sandra Bullock as Pitt’s handler.

Bullet Train arrives in cinemas July 15th, 2022. Check out the trailer below.

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