Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern have all joined the cast of John Lee Hancock’s Cancer trial drama ‘Monsanto’.
The film follows the true story of young, untried attorney Brent Wisner (Powell), who in 2019 took on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S. chemical company Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson (Mackie) who used the company’s best-known product Roundup, a wildly financially successful weed and grass pesticide killer, as part of his job as a high school groundskeeper.
Dern takes on the role of Dr. Melinda Rogers, the Monsanto Company’s chief toxicologist, who testifies with certainty that Roundup is safe.
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The film is being produced by Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Philip Schulz-Deyle and Jon Levin alongside HyperObject Industries’ Adam McKay and Kevin Messick. The story is written by Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc, Ned Benson and Hancock.
Further casting news for hot property Glen Powell, it is reported that the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ star is set to reunite with J J Abrams for his next directorial effort with Powell currently in early negotiations.
Powell will next be seen in Netflix’s ‘Hit Man,’ which he co-wrote with director Richard Linklater and ‘Twisters’ alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones. He is also set to star in Edgar Wright’s ‘The Running Man’ reboot.
