Last Days

Source: Perfect Storm Entertainment

Last Days

EXCLUSIVE: Myriad has begun talks in Toronto International Film festival (TIFF) on the dramatic adventure Last Days from Fast & Furious franchise and Star Trek director Justin Lin after coming on to represent international rights.

The story follows 26-year-old John Allen Chau as he embarks on a dangerous journey across the world to share his faith with the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island. Meanwhile a detective from the Andaman Islands races to stop him before he does harm to himself or the tribe.

Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, Toby Wallace, and Ciara Bravo star. Ben Ripley adapted the screenplay from the Outside magazine article The Last Days Of John Allen Chau by Alex Perry.

The film premiered at Sundance at the start of the year and will open in the US via Vertical on October 24.

Lin produced for his Perfect Storm Entertainment, alongside Clayton Townsend for 40 Degrees, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson for The Gotham Group, Salvador Gatdula, and Andrew Schneider. Keanu Reeves is among the executive producers.

The director said: “I am grateful for our global cast and crew whose passion helped bring this film to the screen, and I’m excited to share it with audiences around the world.”

Myriad head Kirk D’Amico added: “We were very moved by this very personal story that Justin has crafted against a gigantic and global backdrop. We think that international audiences will respond to the extraordinary filmmaking and the inspirational story of a unique journey by this passionate adventurer.”

Executive producers are Guja Quaranta, Ernesto M. Foronda, Dylan Highsmith, Reeves, Zhang Xin and William Horberg, Naoya Kinoshita and Masami Takahashi, Ruigang Li and Catherine Xujun Ying, Wendy Poole, Jonathan E. Lim, Hoyoung Huh, Joseph Restaino, Luke Speed, Alex Perry, George F. Heller, Robin Thurston and Christopher Keyes, and Chris Quintos Cathcart and Tyler Boehm.  

Myriad’s TIFF sales slate includes horror thriller The Pond starring Isabelle Fuhrman and Douglas Smith.

 

 

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