Variety brings word that filmmaker David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw, Atomic Blonde) has boarded Sony Pictures’ action-thriller Bullet Train.
Plot details for Bullet Train are currently being kept under wraps, but it is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Isaka Kotaro.
Leitch and Kelly McCormick will produce the project via their company 87North along with Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven, Training Day, The Equalizer) and Kat Samick (The Equalizer, Southpaw, Infinite).
On top of directing, Leitch will supervise the script written by Zak Olkewicz (Fear Street).