Glen Powell Secures His Inheritance in A24’s ‘How to Make a Killing’ Trailer

Margaret Qualley and Ed Harris also star in director John Patton Ford’s thriller feature that hits theaters early next year.

Glen Powell in A24's 'How to Make a Killing' — Glen Powell in ‘How to Make a Killing.’ Courtesy of A24

How to Make a Killing is inspired by director Robert Hamer’s 1949 British crime movie Kind Hearts and Coronets. The new film centers on Becket Redfellow (Powell), who has been cast aside by his phenomenally wealthy family and will go to any lengths necessary — including violence — to ensure his inheritance.

“There were seven of them — seven rich pricks between myself and $28 billion,” Powell says in the trailer about his extended family. “If I were to prune a few branches of the family tree …”

Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Adam Friedlander serve as producers for the movie that StudioCanal financed and also produced.

Ford’s script landed on the Black List back in 2014 when it was known as Rothchild.

Powell emphasized that he was excited for the forthcoming release of How to Make a Killing, which previously went by the title Huntington. Powell can currently be seen in the Paramount action film The Running Man.

“There’s going to be a new title that we will probably be debuting here in the next few weeks,” he said of his new project losing the Huntington moniker. “But the movie is fantastic, and John Patton Ford is a great filmmaker. I can’t wait for people to see it.”

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