In 1998, Bruno, Sask. farmer Percy Schmeiser made international headlines when he went up against multinational agrochemical company Monsanto over canola seeds.
Now, his story is getting the big-screen treatment in the drama “Percy” with Christopher Walken in the lead role and ET Canada has your exclusive first look at the upcoming film. “Percy” tells the story of Schmeiser (Walken), the former mayor of Bruno and an independent farmer who has always exercised his right to save and use his seeds from his yearly crops, including the canola seeds he found on his property in 1997.
During their germination in 1998, Monsanto sampled his fields and claimed the genetic seeds could be traced back to their own crop, charging Schmeiser a “technology
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