Richard Linklater’s Hit Man looks like a goofy roleplaying romcom in new trailer

/ Glen Powell’s a fake mercenary who wears many wigs in the first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Hit Man.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

The idea of pretending to be a contract killer while working undercover for the police sounds stressful as hell, but the first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Hit Man makes the gig seem like a fun way to work out those improv muscles.

Loosely based on journalist Skip Hollandsworth’s 2001 Texas Monthly article by the same name, Hit Man tells the

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