Netflix Acquires Cannes Hot Package “Monsanto”

John Lee Hancock Film Stars Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern

• Director: John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, The Highwaymen)

• Writers: Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc, Ned Benson and John Lee Hancock

• Producers: Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Jon Levin, Philip Schulz-Deyle, and Adam McKay and Kevin Messick

• Cast: Glen Powell (upcoming Hit Man, Anyone But You), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, Twisted Metal), Academy Award-winner Laura Dern (Marriage Story, Palm Royale)

• Logline: Monsanto tells the true story of young, untried attorney Brent Wisner (Powell) who takes on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S. chemical company Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson (Mackie) who used Monsanto’s best-known product Roundup, a wildly financially successful weed and grass pesticide killer, as part of his job as a high school groundskeeper. During the trial, Dr Melinda Rogers (Dern), the chief toxicologist of the Monsanto Company, testifies with certainty that Roundup is safe.