Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch <br />and starring Brad Pitt as a former assassin who must battle fellow killers <br />while riding a bullet train. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle <br />(titled Bullet Train in the UK and US editions), written by Kōtarō Isaka <br />and translated by Sam Malissa, the second novel in Isaka's Hitman trilogy, <br />of which the first novel was previously adapted as the 2015 Japanese film <br />Grasshopper. The film also features an ensemble supporting cast including Joey King, <br />Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, <br />Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, and Sandra Bullock.
