Bullet Train

2022

Character: Ladybug
Release Date: August, 2022
Directed By: David Leitch
Written By: Zak Olkewicz, Kotaro Isaka (book)
Genre: Action/Comedy/Thriller
Tagline: The end of the line is just the beginning
MPAA Rating: PG 16
Produced by: 87North, CTB Inc., Hill District Media
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Budget: $85,900,000 (estimated)
Filming Dates: November 16, 2020 – March 29, 2021

Cast:
Brad Pitt…Ladybug
Joey King…Prince
Aaron Taylor-Johnson…Tangerine
Brian Tyree Henry…Lemon
Andrew Koji…Kimura
Hiroyuki Sanada…The Elder
Michael Shannon…White Death

Filming Locations:
Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles, California, USA
Sony Pictures Studios – 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Synopsis:
Five assassins aboard a fast moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common.

Trivia & Facts:
• Brad Pitt did 95% of his own stunts in this film according to stunt coordinator Greg Rementer.
• Brad Pitt’s character says that he never forgets a face and struggles to remember who The Wolf is. In real life, Brad Pitt has “prosopagnosia”, a condition that impairs the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one’s own face. He has said in interviews that he needs to remember the context and the situation in which he has met someone in order to know who that person is, just as his character does.
• Director David Leitch and Brad Pitt had a long working relationship before Bullet Train (2022). Leitch has worked as Pitt’s stunt double in multiple films including Fight Club (1999), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt also made a cameo in Leitch’s second directorial effort Deadpool 2 (2018).
• The smart toilet was Brad Pitts idea brought up only the day before shooting the scene.
• In the end credits, the story is told from the point of view of the water bottle as a symbol of fate and how everything is connected. The same bottle has a cameo in another Pitt Bullock film, The Lost City.
• The song “Power” is performed by the band “Siickbrain” x “Pussy Riot”. In the music video, the favourite movie of “Siickbrain” is replayed with women: Fight Club (with Brad Pitt). Part of the song is sung by Pussy Riot in Russian.
• Second film to feature Logan Lerman and Brad Pitt the first being Fury
• Brad Pitt was in his late fifties when this was released.

From the gallery

Quotes
[Ladybug and Tangerine are in the middle of a fight when a hostess enters the room. They both immediately stop fighting. The hostess offers them snacks and beverages in her native language]
Tangerine: Oh, no thank you.
Ladybug: You know what? Do you have anything sparkling?
[She hands him a bottle of sparkling water]
Ladybug: That’s it. That’s the one. Thank you. Domo arigato.
[the hostess leaves. Ladybug takes a sip from the bottle]
Ladybug: [to Tangerine] Sure you don’t wanna talk this out?
Tangerine: Not particularly, no.
Ladybug: Ah, okay.
[Ladybug hurls the bottle at Tangerine]

Maria Beetle: [over the phone] Talk to me.
Ladybug: I am ready. You are getting the new, improved me. Because if you put peace out in the world, you get peace back.
Maria Beetle: I think you might be forgetting what you do for a living. Take the gun.
Ladybug: Every job I do, somebody dies. I’m not that guy anymore.
Maria Beetle: Some conflicts require a gun.
Ladybug: Okay. What am I snatching and/or grabbing?
Maria Beetle: A briefcase. You said you wanted simple for your first job back. Doesn’t get simpler.
Ladybug: There’s nothing simple about this job!
Maria Beetle: There’s something else going on here.
Ladybug: Yeah, I’m not the only one on this train looking for this case.

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