{"id":95878,"date":"2024-05-08T19:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T19:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/glen-powell-to-lead-new-legal-drama-monsanto-with-laura-dern-anthony-mackie\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T19:41:50","slug":"glen-powell-to-lead-new-legal-drama-monsanto-with-laura-dern-anthony-mackie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/glen-powell-to-lead-new-legal-drama-monsanto-with-laura-dern-anthony-mackie\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Powell to Lead New Legal Drama \u2018Monsanto\u2019 With Laura Dern &#038; Anthony Mackie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/glen-powell\/\" title=\"Glen Powell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Glen Powell<\/strong><\/a> has found another new movie to star in!<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old <em>Anyone But You<\/em> actor is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/03\/13\/timothee-chalamet-glen-powell-dubbed-2-of-hollywoods-new-a-list-members-salary-demands-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood\u2019s new A-list stars<\/a>, and he is scooping up projects left and right.<\/p>\n<p>It was just announced that<strong> Glen<\/strong> will star in a new legal drama titled <em><strong>Monsanto<\/strong><\/em>, from writer and director <strong>John Lee Hancock<\/strong>, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/glen-powell-anthony-mackie-monsanto-1235893806\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/glen-powell-anthony-mackie-monsanto-1235893806\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Joining <strong>Glen<\/strong> in the upcoming film will be fellow big stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/anthony-mackie\/\" title=\"Anthony Mackie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anthony Mackie<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/laura-dern\/\" title=\"Laura Dern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Laura Dern<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Get all the details on the movie inside\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2022515\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pic \u201ctells the true story of young, untried attorney Brent Wisner (<strong>Powell<\/strong>), who takes on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S. chemical company Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne \u2018Lee\u2019 Johnson (<strong>Mackie<\/strong>). Johnson used the company\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura<\/strong> has been cast as Monsanto\u2019s chief toxicoligist, \u201cwho, of course, testifies that the product is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese days stories about the \u2018little guy\u2019 taking on huge institutions seem few and far between, both in real life and on the big screen,\u201d producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/adam-mckay\/\" title=\"Adam Mckay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Adam McKay<\/strong><\/a> shared in a statement. \u201cSo, when a story as riveting and inspiring as this one shows up on our desks we get excited. Why? Because people love and need these movies. They always have and always will. <em>Erin Brockovich<\/em>, <em>Silkwood<\/em>, <em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, <em>Spotlight<\/em>, <em>12 Angry Men<\/em>, <em>Moneyball<\/em>, <em>Norma Rae<\/em>\u2026 I legitimately think I can list 200 wildly successful and beloved films about real people standing up against overwhelming odds with only fairness and truth on their side. So, let\u2019s make number 201.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glen<\/strong>\u2018s next movie to hit the big screen is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/02\/11\/twisters-trailer-glen-powell-daisy-edger-jones-star-in-twister-sequel-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twisters<\/a><\/em>. He is also set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/04\/13\/glen-powell-to-headline-edgar-wrights-remake-of-stephen-kings-the-running-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star in an upcoming remake <\/a>of <strong>Stephen King<\/strong>\u2018s <em>The Running Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony<\/strong> will next be seen as Captain America early next year in<em> Captain America: Brave New World<\/em>, and the first footage was recently shared at <em>CinemaCon<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/04\/11\/first-captain-america-brave-new-world-footage-teases-harrison-fords-president-ross-wants-to-rebuild-avengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura <\/strong>was recently seen in the Apple TV+ series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/02\/06\/palm-royale-kristen-wiig-joins-9-big-stars-in-apple-tv-show-full-cast-trailer-premiere-date-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palm Royale<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/05\/08\/glen-powell-to-lead-new-legal-drama-monsanto-with-laura-dern-anthony-mackie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Powell has found another new movie to star in! The 35-year-old Anyone But You actor is one of Hollywood\u2019s new A-list stars, and he is scooping up projects left and right. It was just announced that Glen will star in a new legal drama titled Monsanto, from writer and director John Lee Hancock, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}