Last Days (2025 film)
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Last Days is a 2025 American biographical drama film directed by Justin Lin and written by Ben Ripley. It is based on the article "The Last Days of John Allen Chau" by Alex Perry. It premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.[1]
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| Directed by | Justin Lin |
| Screenplay by | Ben Ripley |
| Based on | "The Last Days of John Allen Chau" by Alex Perry |
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| Cinematography | Oliver Bokelberg |
| Edited by | Dylan Highsmith |
| Music by | Nathan Alexander |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Premise
The film tells the story of John Allen Chau, an idealistic missionary wanting to make contact with the Sentinelese, an isolated tribe living on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean.[2][3]
Cast
- Sky Yang as John Allen Chau
- Radhika Apte
- Naveen Andrews
- Apinderdeep Singh
- Ali Fardi as Anoosh
- Ken Leung
- Toby Wallace
- Ciara Bravo
- Claire Price
- Dieudonné Ngabo
- Marny Kennedy
- Mridul Das as Ishan
- Erik Alens
- Henry Ansell
Production
In February 2023, it was announced that Justin Lin would be directing an independent drama film based on the 2019 Outside Magazine article "The Last Days of John Allen Chau" by Alex Perry. Ben Ripley would write the screenplay.[4][5] The project was developed by The Gotham Group. Justin Lin is also a producer, alongside Andrew Schneider, Sal Gatdula, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Clayton Townsend. Sky Yang was cast in the lead role in June 2023.[2]
In May 2024, Radhika Apte, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, Toby Wallace, Ciara Bravo, Claire Price, Dieudonné Ngabo, and Marny Kennedy joined the cast of the film.[6][7][8]
Filming
Principal photography began on May 17, 2024, in Thailand.[7][9][8]
Release
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The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 28 January 2025.[10]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 29% of 17 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.7/10.[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 40 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
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