Warning: minor SPOILERS for Hit Man are ahead! The Richard Linklater -directed Hit Man is now available to stream with a Netflix subscription , and considering how much critics are raving about the comedy , it’s probably safe to classify it as one of the best movies on Netflix . Glen Powell stars as psychology and philosophy professor Gary Johnson, who poses as a hitman for the New Orleans Police Department and falls in love with a potential client named Maddy, played by Adria Arjona. Hit Man is loosely based on a real life-story, and as it turns out, Powell’s memorable catchphrase originated from those events rather than being made up.
When Powell’s Gary is undercover during the movie, he verifies his clients’ identities when they meet at restaurants by having them ask him, “How’s the pie?”, to which he answers, “All pie is good pie.” Richard Linklater said that he heard real Gary Johnson, who passed away in 2022, say this same line while in surveillance tapes that the filmmaker watched for research. As he told GamesRadar+ : The line in the movie - ‘all pie is good pie’ - people ask me who made that up but it’s a Gary Johnson line.
You can hear the people go like 'oh, we are going to meet at this little diner, how will you know it’s me, I’ll be eating pie in the corner, come ask me how’s the pie, I’ll say you know...
' They think they are in a crime movie, that everybody is playing a role, that it’s a secret code, that they are dealing with t.