Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Stars of Top Gun: Maverick and the Marvel Cinematic Universe join a new legal movie from the director of The Blind Side. Stars like Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and George Clooney have bolstered their resumes by taking on roles in hard-hitting legal dramas, often portraying characters who crusade on behalf of powerless people wronged by the system.
A newly-revealed project will try to buck this negative legal drama trend, however, as producer Adam McKay and director John Lee Hancock tackle Monsanto, a based-on-fact drama set to star Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern. Powell plays a young attorney who takes on a giant chemical company on behalf of Mackie's character, a man who was sickened by using the company's pesticide. Dern plays the company's chief toxicologist .
“These days stories about the ‘little guy’ taking on huge institutions seem few and far between, both in real life and on the big screen. So, 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.
Can Monsanto Become Powell’s A Few Good Men? Big-screen legal dramas may not be as popular as they were back in the 1990s and 2000s, when films like A Few Good Men, The Firm, A Time to Kill and Erin Brockovich garnered critical praise while drawing in big audiences.