Hollywood star Brad Pitt battles killers on a high-speed train traveling across Japan in the action thriller "Bullet Train", who is reunited with his former stuntman-turned-director David Leach.
Pitt plays Ladybug, an unlucky killer who finds himself battling a series of dangerous adversaries before boarding a bullet train that wants to do well with the missions associated with him.
Based on the 2010 novel by Kotaro Isaka, the film also stars Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Shannon and Hiroyuki Sanada.
"Dave was actually my stunt man in '98... We met on 'Fight Club' and he trained me for fighting and it worked out great," Pitt told Leach at a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday. Told about
"We worked with that pair on a bunch of other films until '04, and then he left me to do other things, and now it's back full circle, so for me it's time to see him as the boss. It's really nice to have in form."
There are a lot of stunts and fight scenes in the movie as the killers all want to hold a briefcase.
Leach, who directed "Atomic Blonde", "Deadpool 2" and "Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw", said he sought to balance the film's violence with comedy.
"It's always the balance of tone in a film ... I think creating a heightened world ... allows us to get away with more things," he said. "So we're in this kind of comic book world, this escapist fantasy world and we can play with some of those darker ideas."
The film's cast and crew are promoting "Bullet Train" in Europe this week ahead of its global release in early August.
"I didn't even realize it's been three years since we've been in lockdown and haven't brought anything to the table," Pitt said of returning to the promotional trail.
"It's just cool. We all put our all into the storytelling. It's come together ... and now it's really cool to let it go, hopefully people are enjoying it while laughing together in the theater Will be." ...Reuters