Based on “Hit Man”, a Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth and written by Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater and Glen Powell, Netflix’s Hit Man follows an undercover police officer who poses as a reliable hitman, while he tries to save a woman in need.
Powell portrays mild-mannered college professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hitman for the New Orleans Police Department. As a talented actor, he channels different personalities to catch would-be criminals who hire one of Gary’s characters to do the dirty deed.
Gary finds himself in a mirky territory as one of those potential criminals, Madison (Adria Arjona), asks him to kill her husband. However, when her husband is found dead, it sets off a chain reaction of deception and killer stakes.