{"id":2406366,"date":"2026-05-07T17:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2406366"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:52:40","slug":"adrien-brody-rachel-zegler-and-ben-platt-to-star-in-last-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/adrien-brody-rachel-zegler-and-ben-platt-to-star-in-last-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt to Star in Last Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><iframe class=\"trinity-player trinity-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/trinitymedia.ai\/player\/trinity-i\/2900023920\/?pageURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewrap.com%2Fcreative-content%2Fmovies%2Fadrien-brody-rachel-zegler-ben-platt-aids-movie-last-dance%2F&amp;readContentType=URL\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; width: 100% !important; height: 80px !important\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt will star in the music-driven AIDS drama \u201cLast Dance,\u201d FilmNation announced on Thursday. Karim A\u00efnouz (\u201cRosebush Pruning\u201d) will direct from a screenplay by Emily Ziff Griffin, based on her own autobiographical New Yorker article \u201cThe Last Dance With My Dad.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The story follows a celebrated Broadway composer Elliot (Brody) who invites his daughter Emma (Zegler) on a gay cruise through the Caribbean in 1991. But, per the official synopsis, \u201cbeneath 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platt will co-star and write original music for the film, while Zegler \u2014 fresh off her Broadway run in \u201cEvita\u201d \u2014 will sing original songs.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth Season and Lynette Howell Taylor\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to bring to the screen such a unique and moving portrait of a time where hope and celebration allowed our queer community to overcome one of the worst crises of last century,\u201d A\u00efnouz said in a statement. \u201cWhen many were dying of AIDS there was a sense of solidarity and fury that made us stronger. \u2018Last Dance\u2019 is a universal and urgent tale where joy is taken up as resilience, where the dance floor becomes a pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance. It is an honour to collaborate with such exquisite talent in order to bring this movie to life in a time where, more than ever, we need fables of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u00efnouz is repped by CAA, LARK, and Granderson Des Rochers. Brody is repped by CAA, 2PM Sharp, 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, 42West, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hunick Jamie LeVine Sample &amp; Klein. Griffin is repped by WME and Greenberg Glusker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-wrap-read-more\">\n<div class=\"the-wrap-read-more__container\">\n\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/octet-movie-cast-lin-manuel-miranda\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thewrap.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt will star in the music-driven AIDS drama \u201cLast Dance,\u201d FilmNation announced on Thursday. Karim A\u00efnouz (\u201cRosebush Pruning\u201d) will direct from a screenplay by Emily Ziff Griffin, based on her own autobiographical New Yorker article \u201cThe Last Dance With My Dad.\u201d The story follows a celebrated Broadway composer Elliot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2406367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[366575,333515,320988],"class_list":["post-2406366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-adrien-brody","tag-ben-platt","tag-rachel-zegler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Adrien-Brody-Rachel-Zegler-and-Ben-Platt-to-Star-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406368,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406366\/revisions\/2406368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}