Audiences will have to wait a little while longer to see Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt throw down with an assortment of assassins in the upcoming action outing, Bullet Train, as Sony Pictures has decided to delay the movie by a week. Originally set for release on July 29, 2022, Bullet Train will now explode onto big screens everywhere on August 5, 2022.

No reason was given for the delay, but it is far from the first pushback that Bullet Train has suffered. The action movie was first scheduled for release on April 8, 2022, before being delayed to July 15, 2022, then again to July 29, and now finally to August 5. Let’s hope it’s the last delay for the Bullet Train.

Based on the popular manga "Maria Beetle" by Kotaro Isaka, Bullet Train has the kind of concept that action movie dreams are made of. Following Brad Pitt as trained killer Ladybug, who wants to give up the violent life and move on, he is pulled back in by his handler Maria Beetle in order to collect a briefcase on a bullet train heading from Tokyo to Kyoto. Once aboard, Ladybug realizes that he is not the only killer on the train, coming face-to-face and bullet-to-bullet with a variety of other assassins, who slowly discover that their objectives are all connected.

Directed by David Leitch (John Wick) from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, a stellar cast has purchased tickets to ride the Bullet Train, with Brad Pitt leading an ensemble that includes the likes of Joey King (The Kissing Booth) as Prince, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The King's Man, Tenet) as Tangerine, Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals) as Lemon, and Zazie Beetz (Joker) as Hornet, as well as Andrew Koji (Warrior), Masi Oka (Heroes), Michael Shannon (Knives Out), Logan Lerman (Hunters), and Sandra Bullock (The Lost City) as Maria Beetle. Additionally, Hiroyuki Sanada, Karen Fukuhara, Bad Bunny, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Miraj Grbić round out the rest of the superb supporting cast.

Bullet Train Could be the Action Movie of the Year

The first reactions to the opening of Bullet Train recently emerged after footage from the movie was shown at CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas. “We just watched the first 15 minutes or so of #BulletTrain, which was awesome. A bunch of crazy assassins on a train, all colliding with one another. Brad Pitt thinks it’s a simple snatch-and-grab job, and then all hell breaks loose. Terrific humor, too,” said one early reaction.

Another reaction adds, “First up, BULLET TRAIN. David Leitch in the house. Showed us the first 10-15 mins. of the film. It turns out Brian Tyree Henry is playing Lemon, not Logan Lerman, as I had suspected. It felt like John Woo got his hands on a Guy Ritchie script. Does that sound good or bad to you?” Honestly, sounds pretty good to us.

So, once again for those not paying attention, Bullet Train is now scheduled to be released in the United States on August 5, 2022, by Sony Pictures Releasing.