(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 17 - "The screenplay for BULLET TRAIN arrived during the pandemic when there was a kind of depression in everyone and people were almost going crazy. I started reading it and when I got to the character of Bad Bunny I started laughing out loud. And who was sending it to me? My friend David Leitch, who had been my stunt man in FIGHT CLUB. "
In a beige suit and white t-shirt, Brad Pitt talks about his new film, BULLET TRAIN by David Leitch in an international press meeting where he plays Ladybug, a disenchanted killer and philosopher determined to complete his dirty work with his bare hands on a bullet train 'exaggeratedly fast.
The Sony film, adaptation of the 2010 novel The Settekillers of the Shinkansen (Maria Bītoru) written by Kōtarō Isaka, in cinemas from 25 August with Warner and premiered on 3 August in Locarno for the opening of the Festival, tells of five assassins who find themselves on this direct train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between.
During the journey, the five killers discover that each of them is there for the same mission and that therefore that super modern train for them will become the arena to survive.
Who is Ladybug?
"He is a bit of an idiot, a killer in crisis of existence who has a nervous breakdown behind him, perhaps even because of what happened to him negative in his work. his life can now be full again. And he also believes, he who is a killer, that things can be resolved peacefully ", always says BradPitt.
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