Netflix acquires the rights to Monsanto starring Glen Powell, while the streaming platform is also looking to purchase Emilia Peréz.
, the film “centers on the true story of untested attorney Brent Wisner taking on the chemical company Monsanto on behalf of client Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson , 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., 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 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.”
Netflix has landed the North American rights to Jacques Audiard’s ‘EMILIA PEREZ,’ starring Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez.According to Variety, the deal is for approximately $12 million, and “there’s still the possibility that the ongoing negotiations could fall apart.”Brandon Schreur has been writing about comics, movies, television shows, and all things pop culture for roughly five years.
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