Glen Powell is a master of disguise (well, kind of) in new Hit Man trailer

You’d think that, by now, Glen Powell’s characters would have learned that adopting a false identity and lying to pretty much everyone you know never pans out well, but nope! The actor is trading being Sydney Sweeney’s fake boyfriend in Anyone But You for being the cops’ fake hired gun in Hit Man, and—based on the film’s newly released trailer—the latter deception ends up in a territory just as sultry and complicated as the former.

Directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Powell, Hit Man is loosely based on the true story of a “mild-mannered professor” named Gary Johnson who “lives alone with his two cats,” according to the 2001 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth that inspired the screenplay. But Gary also has a secret: when he’s not teaching, he moonlights as a fake, highly sought-after hit man who’s actually working with the cops to arrest anyone who hires him. What could go wrong?

Apart from the fact that it’s hard to believe anyone would buy Powell as a glum, sad-sack professor—or a skeevy creature of the underworld for that matter—what goes wrong is… exactly what you’d suspect. Johnson is swept off his feet when he’s hired by a woman (Adria Arjona) seeking to off her husband, which makes things even more complicated when the husband is actually found dead a little while later. (As we see in one scene in the trailer, Gary can’t even properly aim a gun.)

As you may recall, Netflix somewhat controversially purchased the film’s distribution rights for $20 million last September. Critics and festival audiences had hoped to see the extremely buzzy movie get a wider theatrical release, a notion that feels like a complete no-brainer considering the fact that Powell’s Anyone But You brought in a whopping $219 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo), almost nine times the film’s budget. Netflix does promise a theatrical run at some point (details are still unclear on that), but in the meantime, it’s mostly just exciting that wider audiences will be able to experience this film in any capacity after months and months of hype.

Hit Man premieres on Netflix June 7.