All aboard for the first trailer for Brad Pitt’s new action movie Bullet Train — one of the summer blockbusters we're excited for — that heads for movie theaters on July 15. This first look at the highly-anticipated movie showcases a stylish, funny and star-studded fight sequence that is just made for the big screen.
Bullet Train is directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2, John Wick, Atomic Blonde), with a script by Zak Olkewicz based on the novel by Kôtarô Isaka. The trailer follows five assassins aboard a fast-moving train who find out their missions all have something in common. As well as leading man Brad Pitt, the film also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, The King's Man), Sandra Bullock (The Lost City, The Unforgivable), Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals), Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon, Joey King, Logan Lerman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Andrea Muñoz and rapper Bad Bunny.
Watch the first trailer for Bullet Train directly below.
You immediately get the fun tone that Bullet Train is going for with the quiet car sequence that opens the trailer, which is then followed up with plenty of impressive action and bread crumbs pointing to the larger mystery at hand.
An impressive tidbit about the action that you see in the Bullet Train trailer: the movie’s second-unit director and stunt coordinator Greg Rementer told Vulture in 2021 that the Oscar-winner Pitt (who won his gold statue for playing a stuntman in Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood) did most of his own stunts in the movie.
“Brad did 95% of his physical stunts — the fighting,” Rementer said in the Vulture piece. “He’s like a natural-born athlete. He really got in there.”
Bullet Train is the second movie that Brad Pitt stars in this year and also his second film this year with co-star Sandra Bullock. Both actors star in The Lost City, the action-adventure smash hit that was released in March.
