The Texas-born director Linklater is the creator of the popular films Boyhood (2014) and School of Rock (2003), in addition to the Before series, which consists of three love stories starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke.
Despite receiving positive reviews and a large opening weekend crowd for his most recent film, Hit Man, he claims it was difficult to get “traditional” film studios interested in it. Netflix is the one releasing the film.
Hit Man is a romantic thriller comedy starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona about a professor named Gary who gets stuck in a rut and starts working as a fake hitman for a city police department named Ron. Gary falls in love with a woman.
Someone makes an attempt to hire him.
The genuine story of Gary Johnson, a community professor who served as a fictitious “assassin” for the Houston police, is the basis for the film. Linklater first learned about Johnson’s story in an article published more than 20 years ago. Johnson passed away in 2022, not long before the movie’s release.
According to Linklater, he and co-screenwriter Glen Powell intended for the film to be about “passion”.
Linklater tells the reporters, “I said, it’s gonna have sex, it’ll be passionate, it’ll be carnal, the desire that drives everything.”
