Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Brian Tyree Henry Talk Bullet Train and Cool World

With director David Leitch’s fantastic new movie, Bullet Train, opening in theaters later this week, I recently got to speak with Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Brian Tyree Henry about making the action-thriller. During the fun interview, they talked about how they filmed most of the movie on a soundstage on the Sony backlot (you won’t believe it after you see the film), filming the action sequences, how they used old school movie making with new technology, and what someone should watch if they’ve never seen their work. This includes a Cool World joke… If you haven’t seen the trailers, Bullet Train was adapted from the Japanese mystery-fiction book Bullet Train written by Kōtarō Isaka, the Japanese best-selling and award-winning novelist. Just like the novel, the movie takes place in Japan on the titular bullet train on a trip from Tokyo to Morioka. On the train there are a number of assassins whose assignments are very much interconnected, though they don’t know this until things star
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