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Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall to Play Gay Cannabis Activists in Justin Kurzel’s ‘Burning Rainbow Farm’ About Infamous 2001 Police Siege
The film, being sold in Cannes, will tell the story of the deadly 2001 siege at a Michigan cannabis farm
“Burning Rainbow Farm” is set to tell the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, two gay cannabis activists who met in the early 1990s and set up the peaceful, pot-friendly utopia Rainbow Farm in Michigan, a site that was once listed by High Times magazine as “fourteenth on the list of twenty-five Top Stoner Travel Spots in the world.” But the pair ran afoul of local authorities and, when their young son was taken from them, a police standoff ensued that would lead to one of the largest and most dramatic sieges America has ever seen. The screenplay was written by Tommy Murphy (“Holding the Man,” “Significant Others”) based on Dean Kuipers’ 2006 book “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke.” Kurzel, who last year presented “The Order” in Venice, revealed in November that “Burning Rainbow Farm” would likely be his next film, taking over from Lenny Abrahamson who had written an early adaptation.
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