{"id":553669,"date":"2026-04-27T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:01:09","slug":"monsanto-with-jonathan-bailey-laura-dern-heads-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553669\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto\u2019 With Jonathan Bailey &#038; Laura Dern Heads To Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-lee-hancock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-lee-hancock\" data-tag=\"john-lee-hancock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Lee Hancock<\/a> is gearing up for the shoot of courtroom drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/monsanto\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monsanto\" data-tag=\"monsanto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monsanto<\/a> starring with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jonathan-bailey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jonathan-bailey\" data-tag=\"jonathan-bailey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bailey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/laura-dern\/\" id=\"auto-tag_laura-dern\" data-tag=\"laura-dern\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Dern<\/a> in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe drama revisiting the real-life legal battle against chemical giant Monsanto will star Bailey as attorney Brent Wisner who led a lawsuit against the US company Monsanto alleging that its Roundup herbicide product caused cancer. \u00a0He replaces<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/05\/glen-powell-anthony-mackie-laura-dern-monsanto-netflix-deal-1235923011\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/05\/glen-powell-anthony-mackie-laura-dern-monsanto-netflix-deal-1235923011\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Glen Powell who was previously announced <\/a>for the role. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDern plays Monsanto\u2019s chief toxicologist, who testifies during the trial that Roundup is safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNews of the German shoot came to light after Bavaria\u2019s regional film fund FFF Bayern announced it was supporting the Netflix international co-production to the tune of 500,000 euros ($589,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA large part of the filming will take place in Bavaria, and the FFF Film Commission supported the crew in their search for locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHancock wrote the screenplay with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson. John Schwartzman is attached as cinematographer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMunich-based company KrautPack Entertainment is producing from the German side, while the American co-production partner is Onda Entertainment, based in Los Angeles. Executive producers for the Netflix film are Philip Schulz-Deyle and Moritz Borman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Lee Hancock is gearing up for the shoot of courtroom drama Monsanto starring with Jonathan Bailey and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,190316,19613,47871,190317,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-553669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-john-lee-hancock","11":"tag-jonathan-bailey","12":"tag-laura-dern","13":"tag-monsanto","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}