Welcome back to Behind The Scenes Saturday!! I thought I’d take a little break from the Christmas posts and paying tribute to my favorite 2022 film, Bullet Train! Bullet Train is filled with humor, combat, and twists and turns that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. So, be on the lookout for the Diesel, always check your water, and enjoy these fun pictures and bits of trivia!!

(Trivia provided by IMDb.com)

(Pictures provided by google.com and IMDb.com)

(SPOILER ALERT!!!)

• Ladybug (Brad Pitt) stated that he never forgets a face, but he had trouble remembering who The Wolf (Bad Bunny) was. In real life, Brad Pitt has prosopagnosia, which is the condition that impairs the ability to recognize familiar faces. Just like his character, Pitt needs to remember the context and the situation where he has met someone in order to remember who they are.
• According to the film’s stunt coordinator, Greg Rementer, Brad Pitt did about 95% of his own stunts for the film.
• After a stunt gone wrong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Tangerine) lost a chunk of his hand and ended up passing out.

• The film’s director, David Leitch and Brad Pitt worked together for a long time. Before putting on his director’s hat, Leitch was Pitt’s stunt double for Fight Club, Oceans Eleven, Troy, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
• During the car chase scene, the moment where Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) caught The Son’s (Logan Lerman) head was completely improvised. To make the moment more authentic, Logan Lerman pretended to be completely unconscious and let his body just fly forward.
• During their fight scene, Bad Bunny accidentally punched Brad Pitt in the face for real.

• Joey King’s (Prince) and Brian Tyree Henry’s conversations were partially improvised. When Lemon asked Prince if she studied acting and/or where, it was improvised by Henry.
• For this film, Joey King spent about 3 hours every day to perfect her British accent.
• Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the film was shot on just two soundstages in Los Angeles.

• It took only about 4 months to shoot the film.
• David Leitch wanted Keanu Reeves to cameo as Ladybug’s therapist, Barry, but for unknown reasons, the idea never went forward.
• One of The White Death’s (Michael Shannon) henchman is dressed like Dae-Su Oh from Old Boy, and he even carries a claw hammer.

• The way the fight scenes blended combat and comedy was heavily inspired by Jackie Chan.
• Lady Gaga was originally going to play Maria, Ladybug’s handler. However, she had to drop out to work on House Of Gucci. So Sandra Bullock stepped in to play the character.
• At some point during filming, Brian Tyree Henry injured his knee and had to be dependent on crutches for a while.

• Ryan Reynolds has a very brief cameo as Carver in this film. The film’s producer, Kelly McCormick joked that it was payback for Brad Pitt’s brief cameo in Deadpool 2.
• The truck that Lemon drove at the end of the film was the same truck that almost hit Ladybug in the beginning.
• The scene where Ladybug just messes with the smart toilet was Brad Pit’s idea.

• For the White Death’s appearance, David Leitch wanted him to show up in a tailored suit. Micheal Shannon turned down this idea because he felt that the character should wear loose fitting clothing to perfectly mirror his broken state. He suggested that the character would be so consumed with grief over the loss of his wife and driven by vengeance, that he wore the same exact outfit for 2 years.
• In the original script, Lemon does not survive being shot. This was changed because the filmmakers liked Brian Tyree Henry’s performance so much.
• David Leitch also has a cameo in the film as Innocent Victim #17 who got blown up in Lemon and Tangerine’s flashback.