{"id":473037,"date":"2026-06-12T02:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:45:12","slug":"glen-powell-and-richard-linklater-might-bring-hit-man-back-as-a-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473037\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Powell and Richard Linklater might bring Hit Man back as a TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glen Powell and Richard Linklater\u2019s 2023 comedy\u00a0Hit Man\u00a0already has a pretty hefty dose of episodic DNA built into its structure (at least, until its main plot kicks in about a third of the way into its running time). Based on a real guy named Gary Johnson, who spent several years working with Texas police to pose as a hired killer to catch people trying to\u00a0hire\u00a0hired killers, the film follows Powell\u2014still in the early stages of his now-crippling \u201cdisguise acting\u201d addiction<\/a>\u2014as he rotates through a series of personas in order to better get his clients\/victims to open up. A big part of the early pleasures of the movie is the way the audience watches Powell chameleon his way through these encounters, telling and showing people exactly what they want to hear, the sort of thing that feels like it\u2019d pretty easy to blow out into a more procedural structure.<\/p>\n

Which is something Netflix, Linklater, and Powell are all apparently inclined to test out. This is per Deadline<\/a>, which reports that, while the streamer itself refused to comment, there\u2019s apparently now a\u00a0Hit Man\u00a0TV series in development, with both Powell and Linklater (who co-wrote and co-produced the movie together) attached to executive produce. Notably, these reports do not\u00a0say if Powell will reprise the movie role; he\u2019s a pretty busy dude at the moment, even if his various flavors of swagger were pretty instrumental to the film\u2019s success, ultimately a Golden Globe nomination for the part.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the actual day-to-day duties on the series will reportedly be handled by Stephen Falk, who\u2019s been pretty quiet since his You\u2019re The Worst\u00a0went off the air at FXX back in 2019. (He was supposedly developing a new fantasy series for Showtime, and wrote a few episodes of 2023 TV oddball Hello Tomorrow!<\/a> for Apple TV, but has otherwise been radio-silent.) Falk previously had a major hand in\u00a0Orange Is The New Black\u00a0and\u00a0Weeds, so this sort of pitch-black crime comedy vibe isn\u2019t necessarily outside his wheelhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Powell and Richard Linklater\u2019s 2023 comedy\u00a0Hit Man\u00a0already has a pretty hefty dose of episodic DNA built into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-473037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}