The Toronto International Film Festival may be over but it's biggest sale has just gone through. Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater's “Hit Man,” starring Glen Powell, for $20 million.
“Hit Man,” which Linklater and Powell co-wrote, stars the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor as a New Orleans psychology professor who also works undercover posing as a hit man for the police in sting operations to catch would-be murders. The film, a comic, existential riff on the hit-man genre, was one of the breakout hits of TIFF, which concluded Sunday.
