Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater Are Working Together on a Secret Film Project
Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke have collaborated together on several film projects over the course of their careers including Before Sunrise, The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Boyhood, and more. Now they’ve got a new “secret thing” that they’re working together on.
In an interview with Interview Magazine, Linklater was asked about this “secret thing” they were working on and he confirmed that he and Hawke were working on the mystery project just last week. The director added: “I’m always working on a few things, so I don’t really know. Doesn’t matter if they’re secret, no one cares.”
Well, I’m sure that fans of Linklater and Hawke care! We just have no idea what the project will end up being. The two tend to tell great little stories together, though, so whatever this project is, I’m sure it will turn out to be good.
Linklater’s next film project is Hit Man, which recently sold to Netflix for $20 million. The film is a true-crime comedy that stars Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell.
Hit Man follows Powell as Gary Johnson, “a part-time teacher who moonlights as a mysterious gun man for hire. But there’s a catch in hiring him to off your cheating spouse or abusive boss — he’s working for the cops. When he breaks protocol to help a desperate woman (Adria Arjona) trying to flee an abusive husband, he finds himself becoming one of his false personas, falling for the woman and flirting with turning into a criminal himself.”
Hawke’s most recent project is Leave the World Behind, in which he stars alongside Julia Roberts. In the film, “Amanda and her husband Clay rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie and Rose. Their vacation is soon upended when two strangers — G.H. and his daughter Ruth — arrive in the night, bearing news of a mysterious cyberattack and seeking refuge in the house they claim is theirs. The two families reckon with a looming disaster that grows more terrifying by the minute, forcing everyone to come to terms with their places in a collapsing world.”