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Grown-up films 'out of fashion' in Hollywood, says Linklater 18 hours ago Emma Jones, BBC Talking Movies , Reporter Share Netflix Hit Man director Richard Linklater (centre), on set with stars Adria Arjona (left) and Glen Powell (right) Adult stories in Hollywood movies are "out of fashion" according to five-time Oscar nominee Richard Linklater. Linklater is the Texas-based filmmaker behind hits including 2003's School of Rock and 2014's Boyhood, as well as a trilogy of love stories starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, known as the Before series. He says it was a struggle to get the "traditional" film studios interested in his latest project, Hit Man, despite strong critical and audience reaction when the film premiered last year.

The movie is being released by Netflix. Hit Man stars Glen Powell and Adria Arjona in a romantic thriller comedy about a stuck-in-a-rut professor, Gary, who starts moonlighting as Ron, a fake hitman for a city police department and who falls for a woman who tries to enlist his services. The movie has its roots in a true story, of Gary Johnson, a community professor who worked as a fake 'assassin' for Houston police, and whose story Linklater first read about in an article more than 20 years ago.



Johnson died in 2022, just before the film was made. Netflix The film follows Gary, a disillusioned professor moonlighting as Ron, a fake hitman for a city police department who falls for Madison when she enlists his services Linklater says that he and Glen.

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