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 […]