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BULLET TRAIN Promo: Hiroyuki Sanada Has A Story To Tell
With the latest news of a release date delay for David Leitch-directed action thriller Bullet Train, Sony Pictures is teasing a little bit more of the film with a new viral video clip featuring Brad Pitt and Hiroyuki Sanada which you can view below courtesy of the studio’s TikTok account.


News Briefs: Artemis 2021, FACE/OFF Reboot Gets A Director; THE LAST OF US Casts Up; Dual THE THREE MUSKETEERS Adaptation Shoots; BULLET TRAIN Boards New Passenger
Artemis Film Festival artwork from the 2018 cover of CAA LAWeekly Magazine

News Briefs: Nesson’s EL DESCONOCIDO Remake; PANAMA Adds Two; Sanada Boards BULLET TRAIN; Universal Sets VAN HELSING Thriller
This month, efforts toward Liam Neeson actioner, Retribution have taken years to formulate but the project has officially attached Predators helmer Nimrod Antal to direct. A remake of Dani de la Torre’s El Desconocido (2015), Retribution centers on a bank executive forced to complete a series of tasks whilst trapped in his car with his children, lest the captor holding them hostage via phone detonates the bomb in his car.

Zazie Beetz Hops Aboard BULLET TRAIN For Sony Pictures
Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia CommonsIt’s still great to hear good things are happening in movies as we await the fate of theaters currently falling ill to a pandemic that’s crippled most of the world up to this point…The good news being, delightfully, that nothing’s stopped David Leitch from surging onward with Bullet Train, an adaptation of Kotaro Isaka’s 2010 Kadokawa Shoten publication “Maria Bettle”.Brad Pitt was the first to be cast for the Sony Pictures action thriller penned by Zak Olkewicz, heading a roster that also includes Andrew Koji, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry. As of Friday, folks keeping up can now add Deadpool 2, Seberg and Joker actress Zazie Beetz to the table of players.Plot details are very vague though recurring loglines enlist the following: “Five assassins aboard a fast moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common”; The Wrap notes the film is “described as a contained thriller in the vein of Speed and Non-Stop.As Deadline‘s Justin Kroll reports, the actress is currently filming The Harder They Fall with Samuel L. Jackson for Netflix.Kelly McCormick will produce through 87North, along with Antoine Fuqua. Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada of CTB Inc., who represent Isaka and the IP, are exec producing on the action thriller with Kat Samick, and Brittany Morrissey is the executive overseeing for Sony.

BULLET TRAIN Adds Andrew Koji And Joey King
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BULLET TRAIN Manga Adaptation Makes Way For David Leitch To Direct At Sony
Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten David Leitch speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for “Deadpool 2”, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. (Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)
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