In just it’s second weekend after release, the Brad Pitt thriller climbed to the top rung in revenues.
Could this mean that the American public is developing interest in funding a North American HSR passenger network? [^o)]
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed2289107972/?ref_=bo_hm_hp
If you built HSR so it had R-rated amenities and the equivalent of ‘dinner theatre’ with multiple assassins, or ninjas, or some other form of politically-correct vicarious stimulation… maybe.
Problem is that at our transcontinental distances, even with maglev trains the ‘entertainment’ might start to flag, or even induce a kind of Stockholm syndrome. The amount of this actually generating chronic repeat riders for (even more very expensive) true HSR would seem to me to be limited.
Overmod’s ideas sounds like ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ + ‘Supertrain’ + ‘Blade Runner’.
This one’s an assassin fight movie starring Brad Pitt that just happens to take place on a train. The could have set it on a cruise ship or large jetliner and it would still be doing just as well.
What sort of train does the movie have? Does it look like an Acela?
It’s supposed to be the actual Japanese bullet train, with filming in Japan, and based on a Japanese book.
Haven’t heard of the movie until reading this thread.
Jeff