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Emma Jones, BBC Talking Movies,<\/span>Reporter<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hit Man director Richard Linklater (centre), on set with stars Adria Arjona (left) and Glen Powell (right)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Adult stories in Hollywood movies are “out of fashion” according to five-time Oscar nominee Richard Linklater.<\/b><\/p>\n

Linklater is the Texas-based filmmaker behind hits including 2003\u2019s School of Rock and 2014\u2019s Boyhood, as well as a trilogy of love stories starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, known as the Before series. <\/p>\n

He says it was a struggle to get the “traditional” film studios interested in his latest project, Hit Man, despite strong critical and audience reaction when the film premiered last year<\/a>. The movie is being released by Netflix.<\/p>\n

Hit Man stars Glen Powell and Adria Arjona in a romantic thriller comedy about a stuck-in-a-rut professor, Gary, who starts moonlighting as Ron, a fake hitman for a city police department and who falls for a woman who tries to enlist his services. <\/p>\n

The movie has its roots in a true story, of Gary Johnson, a community professor who worked as a fake \u2018assassin\u2019 for Houston police<\/a>, and whose story Linklater first read about in an article more than 20 years ago. Johnson died in 2022, just before the film was made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The film follows Gary, a disillusioned professor moonlighting as Ron, a fake hitman for a city police department who falls for Madison when she enlists his services<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Linklater says that he and Glen Powell, who co-wrote the script, wanted to make the movie about “passion”.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, it\u2019s gonna have sex, it\u2019ll be passionate, it\u2019ll be carnal, the desire that drives everything,” Linklater tells the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Glen\u2019s character starts off very dispassionate, but by the end of the movie he\u2019s a different guy, he\u2019s discovered passion, and the movie has this strong chemistry and sexuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what\u2019s out of fashion, people say there\u2019s no sex in movies anymore, but there isn\u2019t \u2018adult\u2019 in movies anymore, as sexuality in movies equals adult,\u201d the filmmaker continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 13 years old and looking at movies, I thought the adult world looked pretty interesting, it looked fun and I thought, \u2018I can\u2019t wait to get there!\u2019 But it wasn\u2019t just the sex, it was the adult situations they showed.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut somewhere along the way Hollywood inverted that. It\u2019s like they said, \u2018we\u2019re going to make films where you can stay 13 forever, you stay that little kid with little kid concerns\u2019, so I guess it drifted away as its complexities weren\u2019t the subject matter of mainstream cinema as it had been before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Audience interest in tennis drama Challengers, starring Zendaya as part of a love triangle, suggests support for what Linklater calls “sexy couple films”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Powell, who starred recently in Top Gun: Maverick and in romcom Anyone But You with Sydney Sweeney, has previously collaborated with Linklater three times, including first as a teenager in 2006\u2019s Fast Food Nation.<\/p>\n

He says in his opinion, \u201crelationships don\u2019t really crackle any more in movies\u201d and that he, Linklater and Father of the Bride actor Arjona talked constantly \u201cabout what\u2019s actually sexy\u201d when they were making the film.<\/p>\n

Although they worked with an intimacy co-ordinator, the sex scenes in the film were created from their own conversations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked ourselves \u2018what is actually exciting to our audiences?\u2019 What is new?\u2019 And we had so much trust between the three of us, we could actually talk about his kind of stuff,\u201d Powell says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew each other very well at this point. We had very honest conversations that I think made all those scenes in the movie. I really think viewers are emotionally invested in this in a way they haven\u2019t been in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While stories centred around couples or even throuples have made a comeback in cinema – Kristen Stewart in bodybuilding thriller Love Lies Bleeding, and Zendaya, starring in tennis drama Challengers – Hollywood has had an anguished start to its mainstream summer blockbuster season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Furiosa, George Miller\u2019s lavish sequel to Mad Max: Fury Road underperformed to reach a box office of $144m (\u00a397m).<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Fall Guy, a big-budget romcom about a stuntman, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt<\/a>, was also judged a flop after making $157m (\u00a3122m)<\/p>\n

Hopes of success are now pinned on releases such as Marvel\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine or, later this year, Ridley Scott\u2019s sequel to Gladiator with Paul Mescal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get fired for doing a sequel or an origin story, something that already exists,\u201d Linklater comments, when asked whether studios fear risk-taking for commercial reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get in trouble for what\u2019s obvious and commercial. What changed is that films got greenlit by the marketing department and then it\u2019s become really safe choices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think of Hit Man as a movie to have fun with, there should always be room for some sexy couple movies, these are standards in cinema of what people want to see quite often,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Yet he says of the movie, which he and Glen Powell started writing during the Covid-19 pandemic, that \u201cthe industry really didn\u2019t want to make the film initially.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was done very independently, Glen and I wrote it speculatively and we didn\u2019t get paid anything, we just tried to get the film made. We really felt we were onto something, we felt we had written a film noir, a crime film that\u2019s also a screwball comedy about a couple that you\u2019re rooting to be together, but I think they wanted it to be just one thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong the frustrating conversations we had with studios and people like that was they wanted Ron to be a real hitman, something they\u2019d seen before. Anyway, then we made the film, and it got a wonderful response. Netflix was always passionate about it, but the others kinda weren\u2019t, I think they weren\u2019t sure if they could sell it to an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Linklater says Glen Powell, the star of numerous forthcoming releases, could dominate the summer film season<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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However, Hit Man has broadly gone down well with critics, with The Guardian’s Wendy Ide writing<\/a> that the film \u201ctakes Powell\u2019s amiable, supporting actor appeal…and hones it to a star quality of such laser-beam intensity, you start to fear for your eyesight.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Atlantic’s David Sims points out,<\/a> though, that \u201cthe film\u2019s spiral into romantic drama wouldn\u2019t work without Powell and Arjona\u2019s crackling chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linklater jokes that with Powell also starring in a 2024 update to the 1996 Twister action film (titled Twisters), audiences could have a \u201csummer of Glen\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one who\u2019s worked with Glen would doubt he\u2019s a star,\u201d Linklater says. \u201cThe same movie industry that\u2019s not showing sex also doesn\u2019t have those adult breakout roles they used to that would introduce a new talent. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s hard to do that out of Marvel-type movies as it\u2019s a pre-established character within a comic-book world. Glen\u2019s been really old school, he\u2019s done some wonderful roles in supporting parts, but the roles just have to evolve and there\u2019s just less.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hit Man is released on Netflix on June 7, 2024<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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