Trailer for Glen Powell and Richard Linklater's Assassin Dark Comedy HIT MAN
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Richard Linklater’s (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) next film Hit Man. The film is a true-crime assassin comedy that stars Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell. I like Linklater’s films, and this movie looks like it could be an enjoyable flick!
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. Linklater and Powell previously worked together on the 2016 movie Everybody Wants Some and Netflix’s animated sci-fi drama Apollo 10 1/2.
The film has been described 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.”
Hit Man also stars Austin Amelio, Retta and Molly Bernard. It will be released on Netflix on June 7th.