Glenn Powell's on a roll with his newfound star power, next up a team up with Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern! The 'Anyone But You' actor is next set to lead the legal drama Monsanto from writer-director John Lee Hancock with a cast that includes Mackie and Dern. Per the producers, Monsanto tells the true story of young, untried attorney Brent Wisner played by Powell, who takes on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S. chemical company Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne "Lee" Johnson played by Mackie. Johnson 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 and is now suffering illnesses.
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00:00 Glenn Powell's on a roll with his newfound star power. Next up, a team up with Anthony Mackie
00:05 and Laura Dern. The Anyone But You actor is next set to lead the legal drama Monsanto from writer
00:10 and director John Lee Hancock with a cast that includes Mackie and Dern. Per the producers,
00:15 Monsanto tells the true story of a young untried attorney, Brent Wisner, played by Powell,
00:20 who takes on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant US chemical company Monsanto
00:26 on behalf of Dwayne Lee Johnson, played by Mackie. Johnson used the company's best-known product,
00:31 Roundup, a widely financially successful weed and grass pesticide killer, as part of his job
00:36 as a high school groundskeeper and is now suffering illnesses. Dern will play Monsanto's
00:41 chief toxicologist, who of course testifies that the product is safe. Producer Adam McKay said in
00:46 a statement, "These days, stories about the little guy taking on huge institutions seem few and far
00:51 between, both in real life and on the big screen. So when a story as riveting and inspiring as this
00:56 one shows up on our desks, we get excited. Why? Because people love and need these movies. They
01:01 always have and always will." For more on this story, head to THR.com. And for the latest
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