Hit Man is as outlandishly funny as it is sexy, injecting humor and intrigue into the tedious life of its protagonist, but the life of the real Gary Johnson includes even more elements of danger ...

Powell stars as Gary Johnson, the real-life undercover cop from Houston, Texas, who regularly posed as a hit man in sting operations to convict would-be killers in murder-for-hire cases.

Hit men themselves may not be a real thing, but the story behind Glen Powell and Richard Linklater’s new film “Hit Man” actually is true — mostly. As with any movie, they took some ...

Read on to learn more about the life of the real hit man, Gary Johnson. Yes, and no. “Hit Man” is inspired by the October 2001 Texas Monthly article of the same name written by Skip ...

The romantic shenanigans are the stuff of Hollywood, but the film’s fake contract killer is based on a real man profiled in a Texas Monthly article. By Sarah Bahr “Hit men don’t really exist!” ...

Some of the true story details about the real-life Gary Johnson were left out of Hit Man. The new Glen Powell film features the Top Gun: Maverick breakout star in his most versatile role yet ...

Notably, real life Johnson never killed anyone. Hit Man’s final title card describes Johnson as the “chillest dude imaginable” who loved animals, was a Vietnam War veteran and a practicing ...

a college professor turned undercover hitman. The story is based on a true story, and the real Gary Johnson helped Houston police arrest over 60 people. Here are the biggest factual and fictional ...

Hit Man, the latest movie from Richard Linklater ... Gary is called up. And like the real life Johnson, it turns out he's really good at getting people to articulate the crime they want to ...

I kind of enjoy deconstructing and debunking." How much of "Hit Man" is bunk, and how much is based on the real Johnson's exploits? We explore: As depicted in the movie, Johnson was a mild ...

But even he says finding a real-life killer would stump him. “I could not find you a hit man,” he said. “And I know a lot of murderers.” Dennis Kenney, a professor at John Jay College of ...