Director David Leitch recently confirmed that Lady Gaga was intended to star in his upcoming movie, “Bullet Train.” Leitch, known for movies such as “Deadpool 2” (2018) and “John Wick” (2014), told Entertainment Weekly that the talks fell apart after Gaga was given the role of Patrizia Reggiani in the Oscar-nominated movie “House of Gucci” (2021) from director Ridley Scott.
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“There were short discussions and then, this isn’t going to work because she was preparing for the Ridley movie ‘[House of] Gucci.‘ They shot right before us and overlapped with us and it really didn’t work.” Leitch said in the interview,
“Bullet Train” is set to star Brad Pitt as an assassin codenamed Ladybug. Leitch described the character as “Someone who’s trying to be a better person.” Pitt’s last movie, “The Lost City” (2022) saw him as Jack Trainer, a human tracker and all-out action man.
Joining Pitt in “Bullet Train” will be his “The Lost City” co-star Sandra Bullock. Simply known as Pitt’s handler, Bullock tasks Ladybug with retrieving a briefcase aboard a high-speed train in Japan, but the seemingly simple assignment puts him in the crosshairs of other trained killers.
“This world of all these sadists and assassins, he’s trying to maybe get away from that and justify to himself why he still exists in that world.” Leitch shared with EW. Alongside Pitt and Bullock, the cast includes Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Bad Bunny, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Zazie Beetz, and Karen Fukuhara.
Leitch has yet to reveal who Gaga would have played, but there’s speculation that it was Bullock’s character. However, the director has said, “I’m going to leave that a mystery.”
“Bullet Train” is set to arrive in theaters on August 5, 2022.