Mads Mikkelsen will play the Dead Row Chef with Boyd Holbrook in "The Last Meal" with Oscar-Nominee Ramin Bahrani ("White Tiger", "White Tiger", "99 Homes").

Hanway Films has already been on the repackaging project, which was first announced in 2022 and will begin to be sold at the Cannes Film Festival. UTA Independent Film Group and Sectient Entertainment will handle North American sales.

Prison Drama - Will Begin Principal Photography in Ireland Later this year - Ampas Nicholl Award-winning script from Justin Piasecki ("Relay") explores the idea of ​​exploring guilt, death penalty and redemption, all through the lens of the highest level of food and the most infamous food in the world.

"The Last Meal" will see Palme d' or winner Mikkelsen ("Another Round", "Casino Royale", "Hunting") play Walter Karat, who plays Walter Karat (walter Karat decides to go on a hunger strike, his constant refusal to his meals frustrate his hatred.

"Every time and time story comes up, rather than dissecting it to identify weaknesses, it's completely immersed in its role and tone," Mickelson said. "A story that manages to be unjudgmented and simultaneously manages to make us feel like judges. A person full of recognizable, normal people, except normal. Losing dreams, hope, redemption and love for unexpected events. "The Last Meal" is such a story. Combining a dream producer, actor and Ramin at the center of my dream team, I could be busier."

Emmy and Golden Globe nominees Renée Tab ("Voice of Freedom", "Cosmopolis", "To Stars Maps to the Stars") packaged the film and will be produced for affectionate entertainment. Strong Island's Christopher Tuffin ("Alphas", "Freebruary") will also be produced.

Executive producers include Charles Porter of Black Bench Productions, Kelly Price of Hosped, Karan Hoss of Hoss Productions and Jeeny and Michael Miller of Miller Way. Mickkelsen, Bahrani, Piasecki and Holbrook will also execute the products. Soncient represents Brick Lane in partnership with Todd Slater and Brandon Evans, who will serve as a production service company in Ireland. Ari Novack will oversee production. The main photography will begin in Dublin autumn.

"I've never seen a movie about the prison chef - this unique premise is just the beginning. It also gives me the opportunity to eventually work with the brilliant madman Mads Mikkelsen, whose ability to bring soul and complexity to every character is unparalleled. ”

"The Last Meal is an intrinsic, versatile experience - a profound human story that explores joy, pain and complex relationships with food, both nourishing and controlling," Tab said. "With the judicial system setting, it is a timely subversive meditation of dignity and resilience. It brings life to life through the extraordinary vision and passion of Lamin, Madman, Justin and Boyd - the Shawshank Redemption Response - the result is a powerful, intuitive film that is long after the final frame."

"The Last Meal" debuted in 2022, Delroy Lindo landed directly with Star and British film producer Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje. Samuel Jackson then directed with Andrew Levitas.

“It’s an award-winning script that finally found the right creative team to deliver on all of its commitments,” said CEO Gabrielle Stewart, the Hanway Films company. “Lamine and the madman have given this story their own imprint and it’s not exciting to launch it in Cannes.”

Mikkelsen is represented by UTA and Arts Management. Bahrani is represented by WME, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Holbrook is represented by WME, Range Media & Yorn Levine. Piasecki is represented by Paradigm, Range & Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren.