Despite glowing reviews, Richard Linklater and Glen Powell had a lot of trouble selling their comedy Hit Man
On June 7, Netflix will begin streaming Hit Man , the critically acclaimed dark romantic comedy about a police mole posing as a murderer for hire co-written by Richard Linklater and Glen Powell .
“As a finished film, showing it to very appreciative audiences, and a nice critical response—they still didn’t want it! That’s a studio issue that I can’t speak to.” He does have theories as to why the studios were so turned off, one of them being that crucial issue that the film wasn’t “just one thing.
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