Killer Joe

…Friedkin adapted another Letts play, Killer Joe, which centers on a drug dealer who hires a contract killer (Matthew McConaughey) to dispose of his mother for a life insurance payout. He later returned to the subject of exorcism with the documentary The Devil and Father Amorth (2017), about the chief…

…a viperous hit man in Killer Joe (2011), based on the stage play by Tracy Letts. McConaughey next played a closeted reporter in the salaciously comic Southern noir The Paperboy (2012), a crudely avuncular murderer in the coming-of-age tale Mud (2012), and a male strip-club owner in Steven Soderbergh’s acclaimed…

…adaptations of Bug (2006) and Killer Joe (2011), both of which were directed by William Friedkin, and of August: Osage County (2013). He also wrote and acted in The Woman in the Window, which was based on A.J. Finn’s best seller.