Dark Waters is the new film by director Todd Haynes. Mark Ruffalo stars as an attorney who makes a case against the world’s largest corporations, DuPont.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Dark Waters is an upcoming American legal thriller film
- It is directed by Todd Haynes
- It is written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan
- It is based on the 2016 article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” by Nathaniel Rich
- The article was published in The New York Times Magazine
- Though much of the underlying story was first reported in-depth by two other journalists: Mariah Blake
- His 2015 article, “Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia,” ran in HuffPost Highline
- The article was a National Magazine Award finalist
- And Sharon Lerner whose series, “Bad Chemistry,” ran in the Intercept
- The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman
- It is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2019, by Focus Features
- An attorney (Ruffalo) links a number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations, DuPont
- In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life, to expose the truth
- On September 21, 2018, it was announced that Todd Haynes would direct the film
- Then it was titled Dry Run
- From a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Which would be produced by Participant Media along with Mark Ruffalo
- In November 2018, Ruffalo was officially set to star in the film
- In January 2019, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman joined the cast of the film
- With Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler producing under their Killer Films banner
- Principal photography began on January 14, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio
- On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93%
- Based on 28 reviews
- With an average rating of 6.75/10
- The website’s critics consensus reads: “Dark Waters powerfully relays a real-life tale of infuriating malfeasance, honoring the victims and laying blame squarely at the feet of the perpetrators”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100
- Based on 17 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
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