EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) have been set to star in Brazilian filmmaker and Cannes habitué Karim Aïnouz’s (Firebrand) father-daughter story Last Dance.
Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen) will co-star and write original music for the film, and fresh off her Olivier-winning performance in Evita, Zegler 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 project is the first known movie role accepted by Brody since he won his
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