Bullet Train: Book vs. Movie
David Leitch's Bullet Train (2022) adapts Kōtarō Isaka's 2010 novel, published in Japan as Maria Beetle. Brad Pitt plays an assassin whose briefcase-retrieval job becomes entangled with the missions of other passengers.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Kōtarō Isaka
- Year
- 2010
- Pages
- 432Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 13 hr 38 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Pun Bandhu
Kimura boards a train seeking the teenager who pushed his young son from a roof, while another passenger has been hired to steal a suitcase and leave at the next stop. Elsewhere onboard, two hired killers are escorting a crime boss's son home. As their assignments collide, the passengers must work out who is manipulating whom before the journey ends.
- Director
- David Leitch
- Writer
- Zak Olkewicz
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 2 hr 6 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry
- Genre
- action, action comedy, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
An assassin calling himself Ladybug accepts what should be a simple job: board a Japanese bullet train, collect a briefcase, and get off. The case belongs to two other operatives, and several more dangerous passengers have reasons to interfere. Trying to avoid violence only draws Ladybug deeper into a journey whose apparently unrelated missions keep converging.
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