HIT MAN: Richard Linklater’s Latest Nabbed By Netflix For U.S. Amid Multi-Territorial Deal
Fresh out of premiering in Venice and most recently in Toronto, Netflix has acquired Hit Man, the new movie from Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Dazed and Confused). The film stars Glen Powell (The Expendables 3, Top Gun: Maverick) who penned the film with Linklater based on Skip Hollandsworth’s ‘Texas Monthly’ article.
Shot on location in New Orleans in Louisiana, Hit Man sees Powell in the role of Gary Johnson: the most sought-after professional killer in New Orleans. To his clients, he is like something out of a movie: the mysterious gun for hire. But if you pay him to rub out a cheating spouse or an abusive boss, you’d better watch your back – he works for the cops. When he breaks protocol to help a desperate woman 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.
Also starring are Adria Arjona (Father of The Bride, Morbius, 6 Underground), Austin Amelio (Everybody Wants Some, AMC’s The Walking Dead), Retta (Good Boys, NBC’s Good Girls), and Molly Bernard (Sully, The Intern, Paramount+’s Younger).
Linklater and Powell produced the pic next to Mike Blizzard, Jason Bateman, and Michael Costigan, with AGC’s Stuart Ford, Zach Garrett and Miguel A. Palos, Jr., Cinetic Media’s John Sloss, ShivHans Pictures’ Shivani Rawat and Julie Goldstein, Monarch Media’s Vicky Patel, Steve Barnett and Alan Powell, and Texas Monthly’s Scott Brown and Megan Creydt exec producing.
Territories included in the deal are United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Iceland.
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