Following his Oscar-winning turn in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood, Brad Pitt has taken a role that may require the services of someone very like Cliff Booth. He'll star in Bullet Train for director David Leitch.
Zak Olkewicz wrote the script, based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka. In the story, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are linked to one another. The question becomes, who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station?
Leitch was announced as attached last month, taking over the film from Antoine Fuqua, with Sony backing the project. The hope is to have it shooting later in the year – it's largely set in one place, so there's a good chance the cast and crew can follow "bubble" procedures to avoid too much exposure, but a bigger question will be pulling off the no doubt extensive stunt sequences.