In Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” truth proves stranger than fiction. Based on Skip Hollandsworth’s Texas Monthly piece of the same name from 2001, Linklater’s newest film follows Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, a man so good at pretending to be someone else he could convince clients he was a cold-blooded contract killer.
In real life, after Johnson confirmed with a client he’d been hired to murder someone, recording the conversation for evidence, the police would arrest the person afterward.
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