Title: HIT MAN
Netflix
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Glenn Powell
LOGLINE: Inspired by an unbelievable true story, a strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities.
Panelists: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell.
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Key Quote: Richard Linklater: The average, aware, intelligent person goes through life thinking [hit men] are real…We define it. There’s people involved with the mob, with drug gangs and cartels. But retail hit men, where you look at the Yellow Pages, people in a strip club saying, ‘Hey, you must know people who know people.’ And it’s completely illogical. It would be so easy catch them. You have never heard of one being arrested. You have never hear, ‘This hit man has been operating out of the Northeast for, we think, twenty years.'”
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