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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar victor Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Golden Globe and Olivier victor Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) person been group to prima successful Brazilian filmmaker and Cannes habitué Karim Aïnouz’ (Firebrand) father-daughter communicative Last Dance.
Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen) will co-star and constitute original euphony for nan film, and caller disconnected her Olivier-winning capacity in Evita, Zegler will singing original music.
Emily Ziff Griffin wrote nan screenplay, based connected her 2021 autobiographical New Yorker article The Last Dance pinch My Dad.
In Last Dance, “celebrated Broadway composer Elliot (Brody) invites his girl Emma (Zegler) connected a cheery cruise done nan Caribbean successful 1991 – a dazzling, liberating world of music, celebration, and chosen family wherever Emma, nan only consecutive female connected board, experiences an unexpected first emotion pinch a young unit member. But beneath nan joyousness and abandon, nan AIDS situation casts an ever-deepening shadow. As Elliot retreats from nan devastating reality of his illness, begetter and girl are forced to face nan unspoken truths betwixt them. In nan fleeting clip they person near together, tin they rediscover each different earlier nan euphony yet fades?”
Fifth Season and Oscar-nominated Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor’s (A Star Is Born) 51 Entertainment are producing. Griffin besides executive-produces. FilmNation Entertainment will motorboat world income astatine nan upcoming Cannes market. Fifth Season and CAA Media Finance Group are handling home rights.
Director Karim Aïnouz said: “I americium thrilled to bring to nan surface specified a unsocial and moving image of a clip wherever dream and ceremony allowed our queer organization to flooded 1 of nan worst crises of past century. When galore were dying of AIDS location was a consciousness of solidarity and fury that made america stronger. Last Dance is a cosmopolitan and urgent communicative wherever joyousness is taken up arsenic resilience, wherever nan creation level becomes a pièce de résistance. It is an honour to collaborate pinch specified exquisite talent successful bid to bring this movie to life successful a clip where, much than ever, we request fables of hope.”
Glen Basner, CEO FilmNation Entertainment added: “Emily Ziff Griffin’s unfiltered remembrance of her begetter and her unconventional upbringing is powerful successful some its’ crystal-clear specificity, and successful its’ relatability to each children – successful each types of families – who look backmost connected seminal, life moments. Last Dance vividly recreates New York successful nan nineties; nan outsized joyousness and sorrow of that play and besides presents a cosmopolitan and profoundly moving begetter girl story.”
Aïnouz is repped by CAA, Lark, and Granderson Des Rochers. Brody is repped by CAA, and Kopeikin Law P.C. Zegler is repped by WME, The Initiative Group, and Freundlich Law. Platt is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, Immersive Management, and Jackoway Austen. Griffin is repped by WME and Greenberg Glusker.
