Michael Shannon Joins Brad Pitt in New Movie 'Bullet Train'

Michael Shannon has joined the star-studded cast of the upcoming movie Bullet Train!

It has been announced that the 46-year-old two-time Oscar nominee will be joining the new assassin movie starring Brad Pitt, THR has confirmed.

David Leitch, who directed Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2, will be directing the action thriller that also stars Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz and Andrew Koji.

The film is based on the Japanese novel “Maria Beetle” and here is the synopsis, via Deadline: “Five assassins find themselves on a fast moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to each other. The question becomes who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station?”

If you missed it, Brad Pitt pulled an epic prank on this fellow Oscar winner!