Netflix has just dropped the trailer for its upcoming film, “Hit Man” which is led by an award winning filmmaker, “Richard Linklater“.
The screenplay was written from Skip Hollandsworth’s Texas Monthly article by the leading cast member, Glen Powell, and director Richard.
The film stars Glen Powellv, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Evan Holtzman, and Molly Bernard in the main roles.
Glen Powell played the role of Gary Johnson, a college professor who is also a fake hitman for the police.
He is a skilled hitman who has been hired by many to kill certain people. What the people who hire him don’t know is that he is working undercover for the police.
In the whole film, Johnson takes on various identities to deceive those who contact him. He usually ends up arresting the people who try to hire him.
Brief Explanation of Hit Man’s Story
The movie is based on an article by Skip Hollandsworth in the Texas Monthly in 2001. Hollandsworth details how Johnson managed to keep a low profile with his neighbors while working with the police as a fake hitman.
Director Richard Linklater read the article and later adapted it into a movie. Glen Powell plays the lead role of Gary Johnson in Hit Man. Screenrant states,
Director, Richard Linklater, a friend of Hollandsworth, read the article when it was first published; it was during the COVID-19 pandemic that he and Hollandsworth discussed the idea of adapting the article into a movie, and they began working on the screenplay and its cast.
If we look at the current and previous projects of the director, whether they are based on any true event or someone’s biopic, it seems that the director of the film makes most of the movies based on some real story.
Glen Powell’s Character Is Focused on The Real Gary Johnson
Johnson worked as an investigator for a district attorney’s office and became an undercover agent in 1989.
The police gave a task to him to disguise himself as a hitman for a woman who wanted her husband killed.
The woman was sentenced to a lengthy time in prison, and Johnson continued his work as a fake hitman for hire.
Johnson maintained an ordinary, unassuming public image, caring for his pet cats and being polite to his neighbors.
Those who hired him as a hitman saw him as a mysterious loner who always accepted the job and promised to take care of the problem.
Hollandsworth described the real Johnson as “the Laurence Olivier of the field,” a skilled actor who could easily fit into any role he was given.
His colleagues likened him to a chameleon who always fooled anyone he encountered.
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