His grandmother, who lives in Parkersburg, West Virginia, gives his phone number to local farmer, Earl Tennant. Robert sends the DuPont evidence to the EPA and Department of Justice, among others. Interesting? On September 21, 2018, it was announced that Todd Haynes would direct the film, then titled Dry Run, from a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan, which would be produced by Participant Media along with Mark Ruffalo. Hailey Green, 19, said she’s “too busy” to go watch the film, which she said caused inconvenience for people wishing to park at their homes during filming. It since has been renamed Dark Waters. Snow had been cleared from some nearby yards, apparently so it wouldn’t look like winter during the shooting. They dumped thousands of tons of toxic sludge in a landfill next to Tennant's farm. However, DuPont sends a letter notifying residents of the presence of PFOA, thus starting the statute of limitations and giving any further action only a month to begin. 10 of 10 found this interesting. PHOTOS: Movie starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway filming in Hamilton. [2], In its opening weekend the film made $102,656 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $25,651. DuPont has been running tests of the effect of PFOA for decades, finding that it causes cancer and birth defects, but did not make the findings public. Dark Waters is now in limited release and opens wide on Friday, December 6. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dark_Waters_(2019_film)&oldid=1017549871, Films based on newspaper and magazine articles, Films with screenplays by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 April 2021, at 12:02. [5] Parts of the story were also reported by Mariah Blake, whose 2015 article "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia" was a National Magazine Award finalist,[6] and Sharon Lerner, whose series "Bad Chemistry" ran in The Intercept. He wins the first three multimillion-dollar settlements against DuPont, and DuPont settles the remaining more than 3,500 disease cases for $671 million. Interesting? That’s right, rather than venturing off to the far-flung corners of the world, His Dark Materials and most notably the new location of Cittàgazze, was actually filmed in Wales. )[22], DuPont CEO Marc Doyle, executives, and investors argued in internal statements that much of the movie was not based in fact and DuPont was misconstrued to fit the role of the enemy. Dark Waters is released in cinemas across the UK this weekend. She and her husband didn’t move onto the street until July, but she found it interesting that a selling point of the house was that it was located on the block where the film had been shot. The film is directed by Academy Award nominee Todd Haynes. Dark Waters (2019) PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History. [12], 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. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. The industrial giant had a very difficult 2019, but is it set for a turnaround in the coming year? 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