Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler to Star in Movie "Last Dance"

Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler will star in Brazilian filmmaker and Cannes habitué Karim Aïnouz’s father-daughter story "Last Dance".

Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner Ben Platt will co-star and write original music for the project, with Zegler, who is fresh off her Olivier-winning performance in "Evita", will sing original music.

Emily Ziff Griffin wrote the screenplay based on her 2021 autobiographical New Yorker article “The Last Dance with My Dad.”

The adaptation is the first known movie role accepted by Brody since he won his second Best Actor Oscar for The Brutalist.

In Last Dance, “celebrated Broadway composer Elliot (Brody) invites his daughter Emma (Zegler) on a gay cruise through the Caribbean in 1991 — a dazzling, liberating world of music, celebration and chosen family where Emma, the only straight woman on board, experiences an unexpected first love with a young crew member. But beneath the joy and abandon, the AIDS crisis casts an ever-deepening shadow. As Elliot retreats from the devastating reality of his illness, father and daughter are forced to confront the unspoken truths between them. In the fleeting time they have left together, can they rediscover each other before the music finally fades?”.

Fifth Season and Oscar-nominated Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor’s 51 Entertainment are producing. Griffin also executive produces.

FilmNation Entertainment will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes market. Fifth Season and CAA Media Finance Group are handling domestic rights.