Acclaimed filmmaker behind the Glen Powell-starring film Hit Man, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, discusses his collaborator and the strike
, directed by Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Powell, the actor delivers his most charismatic turn yet as Gary Johnson, a university professor who moonlights as an undercover cop posing as a hitman, arresting the lost souls who hire him. When he falls for one of his prospective clients , things get messy.Film Festival and is still seeking distribution, is based on thestory of the same name by Skip Hollandsworth.
Linklater came across “Hit Man” over a decade ago, even before he’d read the Hollandsworth yarn “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas,” which inspired his. But it was Powell who brought the story back to him in the spring of 2020, just as the pandemic had taken hold, the filmmaker revealed during its Venice press conference.
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