Comic-demented role for the star in David Leitch’s “Bullet train”, which will open the Locarno Film Festival, scheduled from 3 to 13 August, and in cinemas from 25 August
a killer reduces from a nervous breakdown, haunted by the misfortune that torments every aspect of life: it is enough for him to show himself for someone to die. Battle name Ladybug (Ladybug), wanders trying to go unnoticed by hiding under a flanking hat. “Too many things have gone wrong, and he’s starting to think it’s all up to him. From the eat that persecutes him and that he would like to get rid of in the least bloody way possible ». Brad Pitt thus describes his killer in Existential crisis from «
Bullet Train»
by David Leitch, opening film of the Locarno Film Festival on August 3 and then in cinemas from 25 with Warner Bros. Too bad that fate will lead him to risk your life threatened by other colleagues, among the deadliest in the world, engaged in the same mysterious mission, on a fired train at 300 km / h between Tokyo and Kyoto.
Produced by Sony, the film is based on the successful bestseller by Kotaro Isaka
“I sette killer dello Shinkansen”, thriller with comical-zany veins for which they were called into question, as references, Agatha Christie e Quentin Tarantino. The film definitely veers more in the direction ofpop imagery by the American director: assassins on the Japan express where the carnage mingle with nuisance of the travelers of the “Silent carriage” who wouldn’t want to be bothered. And one of the most ruthless killers, Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) who works in tandem with Tangerine – Aaron Taylor-Johnson who will be awarded at Locarno – is inspired by moral code of the hero of the little ones Thomas the Tank Engine (Thomas the little train).
“I’m a group of psychopaths, it is not clear why they are all on that train, what the goal is – explained the director from Paris at the virtual conference of the film -. But I wanted each of them to have their own profile outlined, in order to understand the motivations of each. We adapted the novel with the intention of showing theirs human sidewithout this meaning wanting them redeem“. In the case of Ladybug, the desire to get rid of a kind of is perceived from the first bars curse. That Pitt as an actor had a bright tank, even comic, from which to draw the director knew it well. “Maybe the association between him and comedy isn’t the first thing that comes to mind, but he has theartistic intelligence to do it. And he is capable of letting you in be in tune with with the character ».
They know each other well. Leicht has a past from stuntman, has been the stand-in for Pitt multiple times. «David is an old friend – says the actor -, we met on the set of
“Fight Club”, and on other occasions: “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, “Troy”. It was wonderful to close the circle like this, directed by him ». She had them stolen the secretsone would think, for the Cliff Booth of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood»By Tarantino, to play the stunt double of Rick Dalton (Leo DiCaprio). «Funny for me to see him in that part – confirms Leitch -. The type of relation which is established on the set between the actor and his double was well told ». Ladybug goes to therapy to get over the after-effects of the nervous breakdown. This film, too, was therapeutic in his own way, says Pitt. “The script came to me during il lockdown, in a sad moment. I read it and it made me amuse“. In the castamong others, also her friend Sandra Bullock.
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