Netflix has acquired the rights to Monsanto, a new legal drama movie starring Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie, and Laura Dern. The streaming platform is also nearing a deal for Emilia Pérez, which stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has officially landed the rights to Monsanto at this year’s Cannes Film Market.
Directed by The Blind Side’s John Lee Hancock, the film “centers on the true story of untested attorney Brent Wisner (Powell) taking on the chemical company Monsanto on behalf of client Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson (Mackie), a groundskeeper who used the brand’s weed-killing product Roundup. Dern plays Dr. Melinda Rogers, Monsanto’s chief toxicologist.”
Hancock wrote the script for Monsanto with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc, and Ned Benson. Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Jon Levin, Philip Schulz-Deyle, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick serve as producers on the film.
A streaming release date for Monsanto has not yet been announced.
Netflix is looking to acquire Emilia Pérez starring Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez
According to Variety, the streaming platform is looking to secure a deal for Emilia Pérez, a Spanish-language musical drama starring Saldaña, Gomez, and Karla Sofía Gascón.
“Saldaña stars as Rita, an undervalued lawyer whose firm is more inclined to help criminals than seek justice,” Variety’s description of the film reads. “She finds an unexpected way out when a feared drug cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) recruits her to aid him in surreptitiously completing a sex change operation to become the woman he’s always wanted to be. Gomez plays his unsuspecting wife.”
You can check out a poster for Emilia Pérez, via an X post from Film Updates, below:
The film is written and directed by Jacques Audiard, who previously made 2009’s A Prophet, 2012’s Rust and Bone, and 2018’s The Sisters Brothers.
According to Variety, the deal is for approximately $12 million, and “there’s still the possibility that the ongoing negotiations could fall apart.”
