First Trailer: Richard Linklater's Hit Man

Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in Hit Man, the new true crime romantic comedy from Richard Linklater, coming to Netflix in June (Photo courtesy of Netflix)

Get your homemade popcorn ready: Netflix has announced the debut date and released the first trailer for Hit Man, the new true crime romantic comedy from Richard Linklater and starring rising Austin star Glen Powell as an assassin-for-hire with a secret.

In Hit Man Powell plays Gary Johnson, a professor who is also a paid killer but is actually an undercover cop who arrests his clients before any killing can happen. His murder-busting scheme goes perfectly until he meets a mysterious woman (Adria Arjona) who needs his help. Amazingly, that's all (loosely) based on the true story of Gary Johnson, a Houston cop who catfished criminals until they incriminated themselves.

Johnson's story was recounted in a 2001 Texas Monthly story by Skip Hollandsworth. Indeed, Hit Man is the latest in a series of screen adaptations pulled from the pages of Texas Monthly, including HBO's recent miniseries, the Austin-filmed Love & Death starring Elizabeth Olsen as suburban killer Candy Montgomery (whose crimes were originally captured in a 1984 two-part feature by Jim Atkinson and John "Joe-Bob Briggs" Bloom, "Love & Death in Silicon Prairie").

Hit Man marks a return to the unconventional true crime genre for Linklater, who tackled an unlikely killer who really did the deed in 2012's Bernie (itself adapted from another Texas Monthly story by Hollandsworth, 1998's "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas"). It also reunites him with Top Gun: Maverick star Powell, who has become a Linklater regular through supporting roles in Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood and Everybody Wants Some!!, and is now coming in hot after the simmering success of his recent rom com smash, Anyone But You.

Hit Man had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last September before wrapping up its festival run today at Sundance in Utah. So now Netflix has dropped the first trailer and announced that Hit Man will arrive in the streamer on June 7: more info at netflix.com/HitMan.

Now here's that first trailer ...