Richard Linklater and Glen Powell’s HIT MAN Movie Sells to Netflix for $20 Million
Netflix recently acquired director Richard Linklater’s (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) upcoming film Hit Man for $20 million. The film is a true-crime comedy that stars Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell. Linklater and Powell previously worked together on the 2016 movie Everybody Wants Some and Netflix’s animated sci-fi drama Apollo 10 1/2.
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.”
Linklater adapted the screenplay with Powell from a Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth, and it’s been getting good reviews from the film festivals that it’s been playing at.
Variety described the film as “a true-life screwball underworld romantic philosophical thriller comedy noir about the world’s unlikeliest undercover agent.” The review said Powell has “an offbeat leading-man vibe” and “looks like Guy Pearce flecked with Ryan Gosling, with a slightly goofy grin that radiates the purest sincerity.”
This sounds like a good and entertaining movie!
Source: Variety