FILM · 2022 · USA
Bullet Train
- Directed by
- David Leitch
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Studio
- 87North Productions, Columbia Pictures
115 archived facts 6 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.
115 Interesting Facts About Bullet Train
Interesting Facts (52)
- #001
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Ryan Reynolds's extremely brief cameo as Carver was shot remotely while he was on the set of the Netflix film The Adam Project (2022). Producer Kelly McCormick joked that it was "payback for Brad Pitt being in Deadpool 2 (2018) for two seconds."
- #002
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The fruit truck Lemon uses at the end is the same truck that nearly hits Ladybug at the beginning of the film.
- #003
Brad Pitt's character says he never forgets a face but has trouble remembering who Kurt is. In real life, Pitt has prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own. In interviews he has said that, just like his character, he has to remember the context and situation in which he met someone in order to recall who that person is.
- #004
Aaron Taylor-Johnson lost part of his hand and passed out after performing a stunt.
- #005
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The smart toilet was Brad Pitt's idea and came up only one day before the scene was shot.
- #006
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In the third act, David Leitch initially intended for the White Death to appear in a special suit. Michael Shannon rejected the idea and suggested he wear loose clothing, as if to imply that the White Death is so worn down by the pain of his wife's death and driven by vengeance that he has worn the same clothes for two years, and Leitch approved it immediately.
- #007
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Prince is reading Rod Whitaker's (also known as Trevanian) novel "Shibumi," about a Russo-Japanese assassin who, among other things, kills his own father. The same book is also read by the airport security guard in John Wick.
- #008
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Early in the film, Tangerine and Lemon discuss the benefits of wearing bulletproof vests. Lemon says, "Vests give you a false sense of security. You might like get shot in the neck," and Tangerine replies, "Yeah, it also stops you from getting shot in the chest." This foreshadows Lemon's death by a gunshot to the neck and Tangerine surviving two shots to the chest thanks to the vest in question.
- #009
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Ladybug tells Maria on the phone that he will get off the train in 7 minutes. Exactly 7 minutes later, he and Tangerine get off the train during their fight.
- #010
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The book Channing Tatum's character is reading appears to be one of the Loretta Sage characters from Sandra Bullock's The Lost City (2022). Tatum starred alongside Bullock in The Lost City (2022) as cover model Alan. Brad Pitt also appearing in the film brought them all back together in this one.
- #011
The film is based on Kôtarô Isaka's Japanese novel "Maria Beetle," first published in 2010. The visibility of the film production led Harvill Secker to acquire the English-language rights to the novel, bringing Isaka's work into English for the first time.
- #012
Bad Bunny accidentally punched Brad Pitt in the face during the fight scenes.
- #013
The first trailer featured the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" in three languages: Japanese, Spanish and English.
- #014
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Apart from the Waiter, the Prince and the White Death (who uses the Prince's gun as his own, meaning technically only the first two), everyone who tries to kill Ladybug ends up being killed with their own weapon. It is said that the White Death will kill everyone who comes after him with their own weapon.
- #015
In the opening, the train has just pulled into the station and Ladybug is talking with the conductor while rummaging through the locker's contents. The scene plays out in real time, with almost exactly one minute between the train stopping and Ladybug jumping through the closing doors, matching the stopping time of a high-speed train — a detail that becomes an important plot point several times later.
- #016
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Lemon was originally meant to die, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson still believed that was the plan while filming the scene in which Tangerine finds Lemon dead. He was not told that a rewrite bringing the character back was coming, and the filmmakers were happy they hadn't told him because they found his performance there so impressive.
- #017
Despite their high speeds, Japan's high-speed trains (the Shinkansen) are noted for being quite quiet and stable. Up to this point, the production had not used a gimbal, the shaking device traditionally used in films to imitate the swaying of boats and trains on set.
- #018
They held a workshop for the rhythm of the scene in which Ladybug hands over the bag while a sword is held to his neck, and the boom operator suggested "Hurt people hurt people."
- #019
The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the film, which is presumed to take place in multiple locations, was shot in only two sets on the Sony stage in Los Angeles.
- #020
Michael Shannon is one of Joey King's favorite actors and was apparently nervous about the big scene he would play opposite Joey King. However, after filming it was Shannon who went up to David Leitch to talk about her performance.
- #021
Although the story features a Boomslang, the actual snake depicted in the film is a Beauty Rat Snake (or "Cave Racer"). While the film's depiction of the Boomslang is inaccurate, its depiction of the effects of Boomslang venom is correct (though in real life it would occur at a much slower rate).
- #022
Ladybug's phone conversations with Maria initially included cuts to her character rather than just her voice, but test audiences felt this was misleading about Sandra Bullock having a larger role in the film. The cameo was a way for Brad Pitt to repay her for appearing in The Lost City (2022).
- #023
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In the original script, Lemon does not survive being shot by Prince, and Kimura is portrayed as an alcoholic who neglects his son. These plot elements were changed late in production because the producers liked Brian Tyree Henry's performance so much and felt Kimura was not sympathetic enough.
- #024
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Significant differences between the novel and the film: White Death is a character created specifically for the film and does not appear in the source novel. In the novel, the person Tangerine and Lemon are trying to bring back to their father is Minegishi's son. The Prince is a 14-year-old male character, and his and Kimura's appearance on the train is not connected to everything else that happens. Ladybug's name is Nanao. Lemon dies instead of Tangerine. The Stewardess is the Hornet. At the end of the novel, the train does not crash.
- #025
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It takes Ladybug 28.4 seconds to take the antidote.
- #026
The song "Hero" is a dance version of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero," sung in Japanese by the Japanese musician Miki Asakura.
- #027
The flashbacks showing the kill counts of Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) and Tangerine (Aaron Taylor Johnson) consisted of momentary snapshots on the page, but David Leitch wanted to take every opportunity to get the audience off the train. "It's partly why you're not exhausted of being in a tube for two hours," he stated.
- #028
While Lemon discusses Thomas the Tank Engine with him, Tangerine briefly affects an accent similar to that of Beatles member Ringo Starr. Starr narrated the British series Thomas & Friends (1983) between 1984 and 1986 and appeared as the first version of Mr. Conductor in the American spin-off Shining Time Station (1989).
- #029
David Leitch initially envisioned Ladybug as a much more cunning character, but Brad Pitt saw him more as a relaxed man at the end of his career.
- #030
Joey King and Brian Tyree Henry used the same dialect coach for their English accents. The film's sound mixer is Irish and apparently asked Henry, after the first few days of shooting, how much he was enjoying being in America and how long he had been there.
- #031
During the fight at the snack cart, a bottle of Miraval wine sits on the counter behind Ladybug; it is made at Brad Pitt's winery in France.
- #032
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Sandra Bullock plays a character named Maria Beetle, as in the novel's original Japanese title MariaBeetle.
- #033
Sandra Bullock's character has a scar on her neck. In Bullock's film The Lost City (2022), Brad Pitt had carried the same scar on his neck as an "in joke" between the two actors.
- #034
As the train and the opening scene progress, all the characters are introduced in the form of intertitles, but the script initially took a different approach. Characters were introduced linearly, then the film rewound and we met the next character. Then it would rewind again, and so on.
- #035
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The film originally opened with Ladybug surveying the post-collision scene and the chaos, then returning to the beginning. Instead, they went back to the current opening with Kimura (Andrew Koji) and the Elder (Hiroyuki Sanada) beside a hospital bed, which offered "the stakes were much stronger."
- #036
The song "Forever Blowing Bubbles" is the club anthem of the English football club West Ham United. Tangerine's cell phone bears the club's logo; that is why music supervisor Dominic Lewis chose the song.
- #037
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The briefcase's combination is 807 — as in the production company 87North. (805 is shown not to work, and the Father later needs two more tries, increasing the numbers one by one.)
- #038
The script initially began in daylight and ended late at night, but they changed it so the last 30 minutes start at dawn. David Leitch says they wanted more daytime shooting to help sell the film, and that this was "a classic studio ask"; "they want to see day, day, day, day, day." He preferred it because it suited the story being told.
- #039
Engelbert Humperdinck sings "Forever Blowing Bubbles" during the body count to save the Son, the anthem of West Ham United FC in the United Kingdom. Tangerine has a West Ham United phone case, and the song is used three times in the film.
- #040
This is the second film starring Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum; the first was The Lost City (2022).
- #041
At around the 27-minute mark, a bust of Jesús Malverde Campos is shown on the left side of the screen. Malverde was a Mexican bandit born in Sinaloa who is revered as the patron saint of drug dealers (narcos).
- #042
The song "Power" is performed by Siiickbrain x Pussy Riot. In the music video, Siiickbrain's favorite films are reenacted with women: Fight Club (1999) (with Brad Pitt); part of the song is performed in Russian by Pussy Riot.
- #043
Sandra Bullock constantly (and incorrectly) corrects Brad Pitt's pronunciation of El Saguaro. It is pronounced Sah-WAH-roh (not seh-gwurr-rroh, as Bullock repeatedly says).
- #044
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Michael Shannon plays the White Death, while Daniel Stevens plays the younger version of the character seen killing people in a flashback. The character was initially a smaller part of the whole, but one of David Leitch's first questions about the script was about building a better ending and delivering a stronger twist.
- #045
The song "Kill Me Pretty" plays as a rattling rock track during the White Death's biographical flashback. Japanese rock superstar Tamio Okuda performs the song on the 1959 Les Paul Gibson piece that Gibson released in his honor and named the "Tamio Okuda 1959 Les Paul."
- #046
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At around 1 hour 45 minutes, the Elder sheathes his bloody sword without wiping the blood off the blade. A professional swordsman would never do this, because it causes blood to accumulate inside the scabbard.
- #047
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Under his jacket, Ladybug wears a white T-shirt with a small snake on the front, at the spot where he was stabbed by the Wolf. A large snake design is visible on the back of the T-shirt. It is a nod to the venomous snake that bit him.
- #048
Ladybug's introduction is set in Tokyo but was shot in downtown Los Angeles.
- #049
Ladybug says, "When we are so quick to anger we are slow to understand." This is a variation on the lyrics of the Canadian rock band Rush's song Witch Hunt: "Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand."
- #050
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Prince keeps saying that her luck is holding. In Deadpool 2 (2018), also directed by David Leitch, Zazie Beetz plays Domino, whose superpower is bringing good luck. Beetz is also the Hornet.
- #051
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Ladybug (Brad Pitt) confesses that he is a thief. Pitt starred alongside George Clooney (Danny Ocean) in the Ocean trilogy, which follows a crew of thieves carrying out numerous intricate heists. Sandra Bullock (Ladybug's handler) also played Debbie Ocean (Danny Ocean's sister) in her own heist spin-off film, Ocean's Eight (2018).
- #052
Tangerine makes a comment while arguing with Lemon about "Percy bleeding from his eyeballs." Logan Lerman, who plays The Son, portrayed Percy Jackson in both films.
Production Story (51)
- #053
According to stunt coordinator Greg Rementer, Brad Pitt performed 95% of the stunts himself, apart from hard falls and running scenes. He also wanted his character to accumulate an increasing number of bruises, cuts and more, resulting in at least three golf-ball-sized lumps, but they talked Pitt out of it.
- #054
Brad Pitt's character says he never forgets a face but has trouble remembering who Kurt is. In real life, Pitt has prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own. In interviews, much like his character, he has said he has to remember the context and situation in which he met someone in order to recall who that person is.
- #055
Aaron Taylor-Johnson lost part of his hand after performing a stunt and passed out.
- #056
The smart toilet was Brad Pitt's idea, and it came up only a day before the scene was shot.
- #057
In the third act, David Leitch initially intended for the White Death to appear in a special suit. Hiroyuki Sanada rejected the idea and suggested he wear loose clothing, as if to imply that the White Death is so worn down by the pain of his wife's death and driven by a thirst for revenge that he has worn the same clothes for two years, and Leitch approved it immediately.
- #058
Prince is reading Rod Whitaker's (aka Trevanian) novel "Shibumi," about a Russo-Japanese assassin who, among other things, killed his own father. The same book is also read by the airport security guard in John Wick.
- #059
The scene during the car chase in which Lemon grabs Son's head was improvised, because Logan Lerman acted as if he were completely unconscious in order to make the scene feel authentic.
- #060
Early in the film, Tangerine and Lemon discuss the benefits of wearing bulletproof vests. Lemon says, "Vests give you a false sense of security. You might like get shot in the neck," and Tangerine replies, "Yeah, it also stops you from getting shot in the chest." Meanwhile, this foreshadows Lemon's death by a gunshot to the neck and Tangerine's survival of two shots to the chest thanks to the vest in question.
- #061
The book Channing Tatum's character is reading appears to be one of the Loretta Sage novels from Sandra Bullock's The Lost City (2022). Tatum appeared alongside Bullock in The Lost City (2022) as cover model Alan. Brad Pitt also appearing in the film brought them all back together in this one.
- #062
Apart from the Prince and the White Death (who uses the Prince's gun as his own, meaning technically only the first two), everyone who tries to kill Ladybug ultimately ends up killed with their own weapon. It is said that the White Death will kill everyone who comes after him with their own weapon.
- #063
In the opening, the train has just entered the station and Ladybug is talking to the conductor and rummaging through the contents of the locker. The scene is in real time; there is almost exactly one minute between the train stopping and Ladybug jumping through the closing door, the stopping time of a high-speed train (which becomes an important plot point several more times later).
- #064
Joey King and Brian Tyree Henry's scene was partly improvised. Brian's line asking Lemon whether Prince had acting training and/or where she trained was improvised.
- #065
Lemon was originally meant to die, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson still thought that was the plan while shooting the scene in which Tangerine finds Lemon dead. They did not tell him that a rewrite was coming to bring his character back, and they are glad they didn't, because they found his performance here very impressive.
- #066
Toward the end, the story is told in terms of the water bottle, the symbol of fate, and how everything is connected to everything else. The same bottle has a miniature version in another Brad Pitt/Sandra Bullock film, The Lost City (2022).
- #067
Despite their high speeds, Japan's bullet trains (Shinkansen) are notable for being quite quiet and stable. Up to this point, the production did not use a gimbal, the shaking device traditionally used in films to simulate the swaying of boats and trains, on set.
- #068
They were workshopping the rhythm of the scene in which Ladybug hands over the briefcase and has a sword held to his neck, and the boom operator suggested "Hurt people hurt people."
- #069
The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the film, which is supposed to take place in multiple locations, was shot in only two locations at the Sony lot in Los Angeles.
- #070
Michael Shannon is one of Joey King's favorite actors and was apparently nervous about the big scene he would play opposite Joey King. However, after the shoot it was Shannon who went up to David Leitch and talked about her performance.
- #071
(At around the 44th minute) The train passenger in the green jacket was essentially in the script as an "insert cameo" moment and ultimately went to Channing Tatum. "It was last minute, it was like, 'who's in town, who would be so funny,' and then he over-delivered," said producer Kelly McCormick.
- #072
Although there is a Boomslang in the story, the actual snake depicted in the film is a Beautiful Rat Snake (or "Cave Racer"). Although the film's depiction of the Boomslang is inaccurate, its depiction of the effect of Boomslang venom is accurate (although in real life it occurs at a much slower rate).
- #073
In Ladybug's phone conversations with Maria, her character's interruptions were initially included as well as just her voice, but test audiences found this misleading about Sandra Bullock appearing more in the film. The cameo was a repayment to Brad Pitt for appearing in The Lost City (2022).
- #074
Major differences between the novel and the film. The White Death is a character created specifically for the film and does not appear in the source novel. In the novel, the person Tangerine and Lemon are trying to bring back to their father is Minegishi's son. The Prince is a 14-year-old male character, and his and Kimura's appearance on the train is not connected to everything that happens. Ladybug's name is Nanao. Lemon dies instead of Tangerine. The stewardess is The Hornet. At the end of the novel, the train does not crash.
- #075
The flashbacks showing Lemon's (Brian Tyree Henry) and Tangerine's (Aaron Taylor Johnson) kill counts consisted of just momentary snapshots on the page, but David Leitch wanted to take every opportunity to get the audience off the train. "It's partly why you're not exhausted of being in a tube for two hours," he stated.
- #076
While Lemon is discussing Thomas the Tank Engine, Tangerine briefly affects an accent similar to that of Beatles member Ringo Starr. Starr narrated the British series Thomas & Friends (1983) between 1984 and 1986 and appeared as the first version of Mr. Conductor in the American spin-off series Shining Time Station (1989).
- #077
The title on screen begins as an animated word sequence, an idea that came to David Leitch as a way of describing the film's numerous themes. "It's a little Easter Egg for the audience," he says, in which each character has their own philosophical journey.
- #078
One of the White Death's henchmen on the train platform is dressed like Oh Dae-su in Oldboy and carries a claw hammer.
- #079
During the fight at the snack cart, there is a bottle of Miraval wine on the counter behind Ladybug; it is produced at Brad Pitt's winery in France.
- #080
Sandra Bullock plays a character named Maria Beetle, as in the Japanese original title of the novel, MariaBeetle.
- #081
Wolf (played by Bad Bunny) was initially conceived as an older character, but he said that "his passion was so perfect" that he took on the role. The flashback showing his life led producer Kelly McCormick to say: "It's a very expensive music video, I'll just say that as the producer." Four minutes of footage in the film (to give a different feel) was spent giving life and emotion to this character, only to then kill him off immediately when it returns to the present.
- #082
The train's privileged daughter is played by Karen Fukuhara, and her arrival on screen led producer Kelly McCormick to admit that it was "not a great use of her amazing talents."
- #083
Logan Lerman plays The Son, a character who essentially becomes a corpse after a very brief introduction. "I don't even know why he did that role," said producer Kelly McCormick. "So amazing, it's really a waste of his talents."
- #084
During filming, it was decided that it would be fun for The Hornet (Zazie Beetz) to punctuate everything she says with "b*tch!" There was a lot of debate about how many times they could do it.
- #085
David Leitch took care to embellish the film with talismans and other symbols to help guide the audience through the film's narrative "because it's really complicated."
- #086
The film originally opened with Ladybug examining the post-collision scene and the chaos, and then returning to the beginning. Instead, they returned to the current opening featuring Kimura (Andrew Koji) and The Elder (Hiroyuki Sanada) by a hospital bed, as "the stakes were much stronger."
- #087
When Lemon talks about the trains leading to The Son (played by Logan Lerman), he describes The Son as the train Percy. Lerman is known for his role as Percy Jackson.
- #088
The song 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' is the club anthem of the English football club "West Ham United." Tangerine has this club's logo on his cell phone; this is why music supervisor Dominic Lewis chose the song.
- #089
During the pandemic, other films had stopped and started, but this film was the first to restart amid the difficulties. This was pre-vaccine, and safety protocols helped them complete production without a single COVID-related delay.
- #090
The briefcase's combination is 807 - as in the production company 87North. (805 is shown not working, and The Father then needs two more tries - increasing the numbers one by one).
- #091
The English character/cartoon series Thomas the Tank Engine is so popular in Japan that you can ride a real "Thomas the Tank Engine" train on the Oigawa Railway in Shizuoka Prefecture, where a special "Day Out With Thomas" event allows passengers to experience a ride on a full-sized Thomas locomotive - a similar experience is available in nine regions of the United Kingdom.
- #092
The script initially began in daylight and ended late at night, but they changed it so that the last 30 minutes begin at dawn. David Leitch says they wanted more daytime footage to help sell the film, and that this was "a classic studio ask"; "they want to see day, day, day, day, day." He preferred it because it suited the story being told.
- #093
Engelbert Humperdinck sings "Forever Blowing Bubbles" during the body count to save The Son, which is the anthem of West Ham United FC in the United Kingdom. Tangerine has a West Ham United phone case, and the song is used three times in the film.
- #094
David Leitch said that a large part of the third act and much of what unfolds evolved somewhat "as we were shooting it."
- #095
(At around the 27th minute) A bust of Jesús Malverde Campos is shown on the left side of the screen. Malverde was a Mexican bandit born in Sinaloa and is revered as the patron saint of drug dealers (narcos).
- #096
The original "Sukiyaki," a global hit of the sixties, was written by the Japanese Rokuskue Ei in 1961 under the title "Ue o muite aruko" (meaning: Let's turn our faces upward). It was his response to his participation in student protests against the continued US military presence in Japan after World War II. An Englishman bought the track during a visit to Japan and renamed it "Sukiyaki" after a Japanese dish that was easier to pronounce.
- #097
The song "Power" is performed by the group Siiickbrain x Pussy Riot. In the music video, Siiickbrain's favorite film is reenacted with women: Fight Club (1999) (with Brad Pitt); part of the song is performed in Russian by Pussy Riot.
- #098
Michael Shannon plays the White Death, while Daniel Stevens plays the younger version of the character seen killing people in the flashback. The character was initially a smaller part of the whole, but one of David Leitch's first questions about the script was to build the ending better and provide a stronger twist.
- #099
The song "Kill Me Pretty" plays as a rattling rock song during the White Death's biographical flashback. Japanese rock superstar Tamio Okuda performs the song while playing the original 1956 Les Paul Gibson piece that Gibson released in his honor and named the "Tamio Okuda 1959 Les Paul."
- #100
(At about 1 hour 45 minutes) The Elder sheathes his bloody sword without wiping the blood off the blade. A professional swordsman would never do this, because it causes blood to pool inside the scabbard.
- #101
Ladybug wears a white T-shirt under his jacket, with a small snake on the front where he was stabbed by the Wolf. A large snake design is visible on the back of the T-shirt. This is a nod to the venomous snake that bit him.
- #102
Prince keeps saying that her luck is on her side. In Deadpool 2 (2018), also directed by David Leitch, Zazie Beetz plays Domino, whose superpower brings good luck. Beetz is also the Hornet.
- #103
Ladybug (Brad Pitt) confesses that he is a thief. Pitt starred alongside George Clooney (Danny Ocean) in the Ocean trilogy, which is about a team of thieves carrying out numerous complex heists. Sandra Bullock (Ladybug's handler) also played Debbie Ocean (Danny Ocean's sister) in her own heist spin-off film, Ocean's Eight (2018).
Behind the Scenes (4)
- #104
According to stunt coordinator Greg Rementer, Brad Pitt performed 95% of his own stunts, apart from hard falls and running scenes. Pitt also wanted his character to accumulate an increasing number of bruises, cuts and more, resulting in at least three golf-ball-sized lumps, but they talked him out of it.
- #105
The scene during the car chase in which Lemon grabs the Son's head was improvised, as Logan Lerman pretended to be completely unconscious to make the scene feel authentic.
- #106
Joey King and Brian Tyree Henry's scene was partly improvised. Brian's line asking Lemon whether Prince had taken acting lessons and/or where he trained was improvised.
- #107
During filming, it was decided that having the Hornet (Zazie Beetz) punctuate everything she says with "b*tch!" would be fun. There was a lot of debate about how many times they could do it.
Characters & Cast (2)
- #108
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Wolf (played by Bad Bunny) was initially conceived as an older character, but "his passion was so perfect" that he took on the role, he said. The flashback showing his life led producer Kelly McCormick to say: "It's a very expensive music video, I'll just say that as the producer." Four minutes of footage (shot differently to give a different feel) were spent giving this character life and emotion, only to then return to the present and kill him off immediately, she adds.
- #109
When Lemon talks about the trains heading to the Son (played by Logan Lerman), he describes the Son as the train Percy. Lerman is known for the role of Percy Jackson.
Easter Eggs & References (3)
- #110
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(At around the 44th minute) The train passenger in the green jacket existed in the script essentially as an "insert cameo" moment and ultimately went to Channing Tatum. "It was last minute, it was like, 'who's in town, who would be so funny,' and then he over-delivered," producer Kelly McCormick said.
- #111
According to the producer's commentary, this was the first film to go into production after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While other films stopped and restarted, this was the first film to have pandemic guidelines from the outset.
- #112
During the pandemic, other films had stopped and started, but this film was the first to restart amid the difficulties. This was before a vaccine, and safety protocols helped them complete production without a single COVID-related delay.
Deeper Meaning (3)
- #113
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Toward the end, the story is told through the water bottle, a symbol of fate, and how everything is connected to everything else. A miniature version of the same bottle appears in The Lost City (2022), another Brad Pitt/Sandra Bullock film.
- #114
The title on screen begins as an animated string of words, an idea David Leitch came up with as a way of describing the film's numerous themes. "It's a little Easter Egg for the audience," he says, in that each character has their own philosophical journey.
- #115
For the character Ladybug and his bucket hat, Brad Pitt cites the fictional character Gilligan (Bob Denver) from Gilligan's Island (1964) as his inspiration.
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