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Vitals Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, mild-mannered psychology professor moonlighting as an undercover police contractor New Orleans, Fall 2022 Film: Hit Man Release Date: May 24, 2024 Director: Richard Linklater Costume Designer: Juliana Hoff…
Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, mild-mannered psychology professor moonlighting as an undercover police contractor
New Orleans, Fall 2022
Film:Hit Man Release Date: May 24, 2024 Director: Richard Linklater Costume Designer: Juliana Hoffpauir
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
After a limited two-week run in theaters, Hit Man debuted on Netflix at the beginning of this month and quickly became the service's #1 most-watched movie in the U.S. The screenplay by director Richard Linklater and star Glen Powell fictionalizes the life of Gary Johnson, a college professor and successful "fake hitman" whose undercover police work led to more than 70 arrests of people seeking the services of a contract killer.
Hit Man is Linklater's second cinematic depiction of stranger-than-fiction true crime based on a Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth (the first was Bernie in 2011), though the production and setting were moved from Houston to New Orleans to take advantage of Louisiana tax credits.
Described in the epilogue as the "chillest dude imaginable," the real Gary Johnson—whom the same epilogue is sure to insist was never actually involved in any murders—died in 2022 at the age of 75 before getting to see this dark comedy that riffed on his life story.
Though sensationalizing his life for dramatic purposes, Hit Man includes many details from Johnson's life, like his cats Id and Ego, his unassuming politeness, and the random opportunity that elevated him to the city's most in-demand assassin who signals his identity to prospective clients with a single response phrase:
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