Bullet Train's Original Plan Would've Been Much Less Exciting
Bullet Train has the potential to be one of 2022's best summer blockbusters — but if it had stuck to its original plan, it could have easily been lost in the mix. Brad Pitt is headlining the movie, and his co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson has said that Bullet Train started out quite differently from what the eventual film ended up as. That change though may well have added a key element to the movie that elevates it above similar fare.
Bullet Train is a high-concept action-comedy that centers on Brad Pitt's aging assassin, «Ladybug.» Though he's keen to leave the life of a trained killer behind him, he's pulled back in to collect a briefcase on a bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka. Onboard, he finds that competing assassins are also on the train, with connected objectives. Bullet Train is directed by John Wick co-director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw), and the movie has an impressive cast. Alongside Pitt and Taylor-Johnson, Sandra Bullock, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, and Zazie Beetz also star.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson has said that Bullet Train started out life as a "dark, R-rated, vicious action piece," but that through the fun atmosphere on set the movie changed during the course of filming to more of a comedy. Making Bullet Train an action-comedy was a great move on the part of the cast and crew, as keeping to the original plan of a straight-up action movie would have been worse. John Wick currently has a monopoly on the R-rated action genre. Many movies in recent years have tried to emulate Keanu Reeves' gun-fu and fighting style in the John Wick series, with mixed results at best. Bullet Train has an original concept (albeit an adaptation of the
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