Director Richard Linklater's (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:School of Rock, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Before Trilogy) new film Hit Man is already - if you will excuse the pun - a hit with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:audiences thanks to its festival run and short theatrical release. This week it will finally be hitting Netflix๊, therefore introducing more people to the wild true story of Gary Johnson. Well, as the title card at the starꦗt reads, "a somewhat true story".

Loosely inspired by a real-life tale, Hit Man stars 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Top Gun: Maverick's Glen Powell as Johnson, a part-time contractor with the police who stumbles into a role posing undercover as a hitman. From there the n﷽ew Netflix film diverts from the true story as Powell's Johnson falls in love with Adria Arjona's Maddy, with the pair becoming dangerously entangled.

The director divulged that he heard Johnson use it on surveillance tapes he watched for research, then knowing that it had to be featured: "The line in the movie - ‘all pie is good pie’ - people ask me who made that up but it’s a Gary Johnson line. You can hear the people go like 'oh, we are going to meet at this little diner, how will you kno🍷w it’s me, I’ll be eating pie in the corner, come ask me how’s the pie, I’ll say you know…' They think they are in a crime movie, that everybody is playing a role, that it’s a secret code, that they are dealing with the real deal here."

Watching these real-life tapes of cases Johnson worked on was eye-opening for the filmmaker, who was fascinated by the various people searching for a hitman. As he told us, he finds the belief in this "myth" very strange: "It's this myth - I think movies invented hitman, this character we have created as a culture that just do♍esn't exist. People seem almost saddened or offended that they don't exist, we are all invested in it for some reason. It's so sad as we want to believe this stuff - we really should be relieved!"

He continued: "I also find it darkly comedic, the desperate people. I've listened to all these surveillance tapes, I've watched the sting operations, a lot of bad '80s and '90s videos - it's so bizarrely funny the way the clients start acting like they are in a c🎶rime movie."

And that's exactly how the situations play out in the movie, with clients approaching Powell's Johnson acting 🎶like they are in a Martin Scorsese gangster flick - it's all very amusing. 

However, one question remains - is all pie really good pie? A joyful Linklater's answer is de🍃finitive: "No! There's a lot of crappy pie in the world!"

Hit Man will be available to stream on Netflix🐼 from June 7. Keep your eyes peeled for more from our interview with Linklater, including the full chat on the upcoming episode of the .

For more films to add to your watch list, here's our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies to keep an eye out for this year.