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Hit Man director Richard Linklater: Grown-up films 'out of fashion' in Hollywood

Director Richard Linklater on fighting Hollywood's aversion to risk and a "Glen Powell summer".

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. 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. Image caption, 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 servicesLinklater says that he and Glen Powell, who co-wrote the script, wanted to make the movie about "passion".

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