Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film starring Brad Pitt as a thief who must battle killers while riding a bullet train. The film is directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, and produced by Antoine Fuqua, who initially conceived the film. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in its UK and US edition), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the second novel in Isaka’s Hitman trilogy, of which the first novel was …