Richard Linklater’s ‘Hitman’ Begins Manufacturing In New Orleans – Deadline

Richard Linklater’s newest movie Hitman has began manufacturing in New Orleans and ShivHans Footage and Monarch Media have boarded the mission as co-financiers, AGC Studios introduced in the present day. 

Austin Amelio (Everyone Needs Some), Retta (Good Boys), and Molly Bernard (Sully) have additionally joined the movie’s solid and can star alongside Glen Powell and Adria Arjona who had been beforehand introduced in starring roles. 

Based mostly on a real story, Powell stars within the movie as essentially the most sought-after Hitman in New Orleans, however should you pay him to rub out a dishonest partner or a sadistic boss, you’d higher be careful: he works for the cops. When he breaks protocol to assist a determined lady (Arjona) making an attempt to get away from an abusive boyfriend, he finds himself dwelling the lifetime of considered one of his false personas, falling for the girl and flirting with changing into a legal himself.

The motion comedy is produced by Linklater and Michael Blizzard for Detour Footage, Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman for Combination Movies, and Powell for BarnStorm Productions in affiliation with Cinetic Media.

That is the fourth mission Linklater and Powell have labored on collectively following Quick Meals Nation, Everyone Needs Some!!, and Apollo 10½: A House Age Childhood. 

Linklater, Powell, and Arjona are repped by CAA; Amelio is repped by UTA; Retta is repped by UTA and Silver Lining Leisure; and Bernard is repped by APA and D2 Administration.

ShivHans Footage’ newest tasks embrace Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Ice Street, starring Liam Neeson, and David Oyelowo’s directorial debut The Water Man, by which he additionally starred. Earlier movies from ShivHans Footage embrace Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly and Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. 

Monarch not too long ago introduced with Seth Rogen’s Level Gray Footage and Lauren Miller Rogen’s LYLAS Footage a feature-length animated adaptation of Sarah Leavitt’s Alzheimer’s graphic novel Tangles.