Monsanto’ With Jonathan Bailey & Laura Dern Heads To Germany
John Lee Hancock is gearing up for the shoot of courtroom drama Monsanto starring with Jonathan Bailey and Laura Dern in Germany.
The drama revisiting the real-life authorized battle in opposition to chemical big Monsanto will star Bailey as lawyer Brent Wisner who led a lawsuit in opposition to the US firm Monsanto alleging that its Roundup herbicide product precipitated most cancers. I’ve replaces Glen Powell who was previously announced for the function.
Dern performs Monsanto’s chief toxicologist, who testifies in the course of the trial that Roundup is secure.
News of the German shoot got here to mild after Bavaria’s regional movie fund FFF Bayern introduced it was supporting the Netflix worldwide co-production to the tune of 500,000 euros ($589,000).
A big a part of the filming will happen in Bavaria, and the FFF Film Commission supported the crew of their seek for places.
Hancock wrote the screenplay with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson. John Schwartzman is hooked up as cinematographer.
Munich-based firm KrautPack Entertainment is producing from the German facet, whereas the American co-production companion is Onda Entertainment, based mostly in Los Angeles. Executive producers for the Netflix movie are Philip Schulz-Deyle and Moritz Borman.
Bailey is repped by Anonymous Content, Conway van Gelder Grant Ltd, CAA, Relevant and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
