Glen Powell On First Golden Globe Nom For ‘Hit Man’, How CAA Assistants Made Impact In Shaping Movie; Provides Updates On J.J. Abrams Secret Project
deadline.comThere’s nothing better in baseball than a surprise grand slam, and this morning, Glen Powell got one in his first Golden Globe Nomination for Male Actor in a Comedy/Musical for the Netflix movie he produced and co-wrote, Hit Man.
Powell was in London for the shoot of his next movie, Edgar Wright’s The Running Man when his family –who literally has cameo roles in the Paramount title– “stormed” into his hotel room screaming with glee over the Globes news.
The movie, which world premiered at TIFF during the strike in 2023 where it was snapped up by the streamer, has been a passion project for Powell, his first learning about via Michael Costigan at Aggregate Films who turned the Top Gun 2 actor onto Skip Hollandsworth’s Texas Monthly piece about a humdrum professor who moonlights for the police department.
He poses as a hitman. In the movie, he winds up falling in love with one of the cops’ women of interest. Powell suggested they take the idea to his former Fast Food Nation filmmaker, Richard Linklater, who is great with characters.
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