Glen Powell is a master of disguise (well, kind of) in new Hit Man trailer
Powell and director Richard Linklater's espionage rom-com finally hits Netflix June 7
You’d think that, by now, Glen Powell’s characters would have learned that adopting a false identity and lying to pretty much everyone you know never pans out well, but nope! The actor is trading being Sydney Sweeney’s fake boyfriend in Anyone But You for being the cops’ fake hired gun in Hit Man, and—based on the film’s newly released trailer—the latter deception ends up in a territory just as sultry and complicated as the former.
Directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Powell, Hit Man is loosely based on the true story of a “mild-mannered professor” named Gary Johnson who “lives alone with his two cats,” according to the 2001 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth that inspired the screenplay. But Gary also has a secret: when he’s not teaching, he moonlights as a fake, highly sought-after hit man who’s actually working with the cops to arrest anyone who hires him. What could go wrong?
