Thriller Movie How to Make a Killing, Seven Murders with Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley

How to Make a Killing, the movie plot

How to Make a Killing is the comedy and thriller movie coming out. The plot focuses on Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell), heir to a multi-million dollar fortune who stops at nothing to obtain what he believes he deserves. When Mary died, Becket decided to follow through on his conviction that he was destined for greatness, regardless of how cynical he had to be to achieve it.

Mary had always claimed that success had been stolen from her, and now Becket wants to seize it: so he devises a murderous plan to eliminate the seven Redfellow relatives who stand between him and his inheritance. As the heirs die one after another, in a series of imaginative accidents, Becket must also manage his relationship with his beloved fiancée, Ruth (Jessica Henwick), for whom money means nothing, and the growing attention of Julia (Margaret Qualley), an old flame, who is ambitious instead.

“From the day I was born, my mother told me we were different” says Becket in the released trailer. “Yes she had been disowned by her family, but one day I would become the sole heir”. “What happened to the Redfellow family fortune?” asks Julia; “all inherited. One day”; “call me when you’ve killed them all. There were seven”.

Then he kills one of the relatives who is on a yacht, tying his foot to an anchor, which ends up in the sea dragging him down.

How to Make a Killing, the movie cast

Glen Powell is in theaters with The Running Man, and has starred in Twisters and Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You. Margaret Qualley is the star of Drive-Away Dolls, Poor Things! and Honey Don’t! with Chris Evans.

The cast also includes Topher Grace, already seen in Flight Risk and in episodes of The Waterfront; Ed Harris, who starred in My Dead Friend Zoe and in the TV series Central Intelligence.

The direction is by John Patton Ford, who has already directed Emily the Criminal. The screenplay is based on the 1949 movie Kind Hearts and Coronets, inspired by the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman.

How to Make a Killing, the shooting and the movie release date

The production is by StudioCanal and Blueprint Pictures. The movie’s shooting - which was supposed to be called Huntington - began in June 2024, in Cape Town, employing hundreds of local South African actors, crew and extras. The movie is released in US theaters on February 20, 2026.