When Brad Pitt signed on in August to star in director David Leitch's upcoming action thriller Bullet Train, it gave Yuma Terada and Ryosuke Saegusa, co-founders of startup Japanese rights management firm CTB Inc, a burst of high-profile visibility for their unconventional business model.
Produced by Sony, Bullet Train will be a big-budget adaptation of Japanese author Kotaro Isaka's novel Maria Beetle. Published in Japan to bestselling success in 2010, the book has all of the elements that U.S.
studios typically look for in bankable source material: indelible characters, a thrilling premise (hitmen and assassins aboard a speeding train headed towards Tokyo), and a relentlessly twisty plot.
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