Bullet train adapts the popular Japanese book Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka. It is centered on a group of murderers and murderers with conflicting motives on a train in Tokyo. The tone of the project was described as Speed, the 1994 action movie Bullock, set in a bus, and Liam Neeson’s 2014 plane thriller Non-Stop.
2009 Oscar winner Bullock The Blind Side, joins a vast cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Zazie Beetz, Andrew Koji and Michael Shannon. This will be Bullock and Pitt’s first film together.
CAA representative Bullock last appeared on the screen in the 2018 Netflix horror hit Bird Box and has an untitled Nora Fingscheidt film scheduled for this year.
Deadline first reported the news of the Bullock cast.