Netflix has landed the high-profile package deal for John Lee Hancock‘s fact-based authorized drama function Monsanto.
Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern star within the movie that was acquired at this 12 months’s Cannes movie market.
Hancock (The Blind Aspect) directs the film from a script he wrote with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson.
Producers on the movie embody Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Jon Levin, Philip Schulz-Deyle, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick.
Monsanto facilities on the true story of untested lawyer Brent Wisner (Powell) taking up the chemical firm Monsanto on behalf of shopper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson (Mackie), a groundskeeper who used the model’s weed-killing product Roundup. Dern performs Dr. Melinda Rogers, Monsanto’s chief toxicologist.
Powell ascended to the A-list with final 12 months’s Sony romantic comedy Anybody however You reverse Sydney Sweeney and might seen this summer season in Netflix’s Hit Man and Common’s motion sequel Twisters.
Mackie starred within the current Peacock sequence Twisted Metallic and can lead Disney’s 2025 superhero function Captain America: Courageous New World. Dern, who landed an Oscar for Marriage Story, starred within the current Apple TV+ sequence Palm Royale and Common’s 2022 function Jurassic World Dominion.
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