How to Make a Killing, a new A24 film starring Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley, has just revealed its first trailer.
Out in theaters on February 20th, the film follows Powell as Becket Redfellow, a poor-but-ambitious gent who has been cruelly denied any access to his extended family’s immense wealth — though he’ll collect millions when they all inevitably die. Margaret Qualley’s character jokingly suggests that Redfellow speed up the inheritance process by murdering them himself, which he sets out to do.
The trailer depicts Redfellow attempting to axe cousins, aunts, patriarchs, and various family members in between. “Seven rich pricks… between myself and 28 billion dollars,” Powell narrates. However, the deeper in he gets, Redfellow begins to realize picking off individual family members to secure his inheritance may be a little more complicated (and dangerous) than it looks. Watch the trailer below.
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How to Make a Killing was written and directed by John Robert Patton, known for his 2022 film Emily the Criminal. He based the script loosely on the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, which features a similar inheritance-based premise. In addition to starring Powell and Qualley, How to Make a Killing features Jessica Henwick, Bill Camp, Zach Woods, Topher Grace, Ed Harris, and more.
Powell most recently starred in Edgar Wright’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man.