A Bullet Train movie poster brings together Brad Pitt's assassin and nine adversaries from David Leitch's upcoming action-comedy flick. Bullet Train follows the seasoned assassin, Ladybug, who wants to give up his profession but is lured back in by his handler, Maria Beetle, for one final job: retrieve a briefcase on the world's fastest bullet train heading from Tokyo to Kyoto. Once onboard, Ladybug discovers the train is swarming with competing assassins with similar objectives.
Recent Academy Award-winner Brad Pitt leads Bullet Train's ensemble cast alongside Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Bad Bunny, Zazie Beetz, Logan Lerman, Karen Fukuhara, and Masi Oka. Following Pitt's memorable role in The Lost City, Sandra Bullock returns the favor and cameos in Bullet Train as Ladybug's handler, Maria Beetle, the title of the film's source material, a Japanese novel by Kōtarō Isaka. With an adapted screenplay by Zak Olkewicz (Fear Street: Part Two - 1978), Bullet Train is helmed by David Leitch, who is looking to continue his ascent as an action director following Deadpool 2 and Hobbs & Shaw.
Now, Bullet Train has received a fresh new poster ahead of its release this summer on August 5. The official poster from Sony puts Pitt front and center and behind him is a total of nine rival assassins who hail from all around the globe. These lethal adversaries are played by Taylor-Johnson, Henry, Beetz, Bad Bunny, King, Sanada, Koji, and an assassin who appears to be wearing a devil mask with horns. Check out the poster below:
In addition to highlighting the film's all-star cast, the Bullet Train poster features the catchy tagline, "The end of the line is just the beginning." This is in stark contrast to the film's first poster, which showed nothing but The Boys' Karen Fukuhara as a crew member onboard the titular bullet train. While it was a creative poster that hinted at the film's setting and source material with Japanese calligraphy, it did nothing to highlight its lead star, Pitt, or the rest of the ensemble cast.
This new Bullet Train poster remedies those issues by putting Pitt front and center, backdropped by the recognizable stars he'll be up against in the action flick. Bullet Train's marketing campaign has a tall order ahead of it – convincing audiences to come out to theaters for a non-franchise film, which have been struggling at the box office during the COVID-19 recovery. Calling attention to its all-star cast should be an effective strategy for Bullet Train, along with the fact that it's a high-octane thrill ride best experienced on the big screen.
Source: Sony
