Another delay has been announced for Brad Pitt’s action film Bullet Train, which will now be released on August 5, a week later than its previously stated July 29 release date. The film is based on Ktar Isaka’s Japanese novel Maria Beetle, or Bullet Train as it was known when it was first published in English, and follows Pitt as Ladybug, a seasoned assassin trying to put all of his killing behind him when he’s given a seemingly simple task: obtaining a briefcase from a bullet train travelling from Tokyo to Morioka.
It rapidly becomes clear that he is not the only trained murderer on board, and that a number of assassins are targeting the same target. They’ll have to fight to survive the voyage while trying to figure out what’s going on with this case and this work, as they can’t trust each other or the individuals that offered them this contract.
Bullet Train has been delayed several times in the last year, with the planned release date of April 2022 being moved back to July 15. It was stated back in March that the picture will be delayed again again, this time by a few weeks rather than months, as it was pushed back to its previous July 29 release date before being pushed back another week to its current August 5 release date.
Bullet Train is directed by David Leitch, who worked on John Wick, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, and Hobbs & Shaw, and will undoubtedly bring his unique stylized action to the film. Zak Olkewicz wrote the screenplay (Fear Street: Part Two – 1978). Leitch also acts as a producer on the project alongside Kelly McCormick and Antoine Fuqua, with Ryosuke Saegusa, Yuma Terada, Brent O’Connor, and Kat Samick serving as executive producers.
Along with Pitt, the film stars Joey King (The Act), Andrew Koji (Snake Eyes), Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Zazie Beetz (The Harder They Fall), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Hiroyuki Sanada (Mortal Kombat), Masi Oka (Her