Anyone But You star Glen Powell is set to star in filmmaker John Lee Hancock’s legal drama movie, titled Monsanto.
According to entertainment news outlet Variety, the 35-year-old actor will be joined by Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern in the project, which Hancock will direct from a script he penned in collaboration with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson.
Monsanto will follow the “true story of young, untried attorney Brent Wisner (Powell), who in 2019 took on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant US 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,” according to the film’s synopsis.
“I’ve always been fascinated by true stories of ordinary people against extraordinary odds,” Powell said in a statement to TheWrap. “This story encapsulates that spirit with a critical issue that affects us all. And it’s a privilege to bring it to audiences with an exceptional filmmaker and powerful cast.”
