The living Dead Actor Austin Amelio Has Jumped On Board Richard Linklater’s Action Comedy hit man.
Amelio will appear in the film, based on true events, opposite Adria Arjona and Glen Powell, who play a Houston police officer who works undercover as a sought-after hitman. Amelio, who is also a pro skateboarder, is also a series regular on AMC’s Fear of the walking dead and recently wrapped up a gig in the indie drama Phyliss, silencednow in post production.
On the movie side, Amelio previously starred as Nesbit in Linklater’s Annapurna/Paramount movie Everyone wants something and at Terrence Malick’s Song to Song opposite Ryan Gosling. Additional credits include Ryan Buffa’s Apples & Oranges, Jeremy Mohler’s love radio and Tony Costello’s Lost nights.
Director Linklater is best known for films like Boyhood, dazed and confused and more recently Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Youth. Linklater and Powell co-wrote the script hitman which was adapted by AGC Studios from an original 2001 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth.
That story portrayed Gary Johnson, a successful undercover cop in Texas who pretended to be a professional killer to get people on tape who tried to hire him for his services. More than 60 Houston residents hired Johnson to shoot, stab, chop, poison or suffocate those they wanted dead, including a spouse or boss.
Amelio is represented by UTA and attorney Greg Slewett.