An over-the-hill hitman must reckon with the changing landscape of a life-ong career when he’s assigned to supervise a prodigy in lifeless 'Old Guy.'

The “aging hit man” movie trope tends to rear its silver head every couple of decades or so, as the elder generation finds itself, by choice or through force, making way for the next. I’ve seen so many of them in recent memory (Kingsman,

Follows a contract killer facing the end of his career who is thrilled when The Company pulls him back into the field training Gen Z newcomer: Wihlborg, a prodigy assassin with an attitude. Director : Simon West Writer: Greg Johnson Stars: Christoph Waltz,

Old Guy director Simon West and star Lucy Liu talk to CBR about how the movie isn't really a hitman film, and what their inspirations were.