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Mads Mikkelsen Death Row Drama ‘Last Meals’ Lands Key Territory Sales for HanWay (EXCLUSIVE)


'Last Meals,' the Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook starring prison drama from Oscar nominee Ramin Bahrani has given international buyers an appetite.

The prison drama — set to start principal photography in Ireland later this year — explores the ideas of guilt, the death penalty, and redemption, all through the lens of food of the highest order, and the world’s most infamous meal: the Ortolan. “Last Meals” will see Palme d’Or winner Mikkelsen (“Another Round,” “Casino Royale, “The Hunt”) play Walter Karat, a former White House Chef whose fall from grace lands him in the kitchen of a maximum security prison cooking for death row inmates. Boyd Holbrook (“A Complete Unknown,” “Logan,” “The Bikeriders”) will play Jeffrey Reed, a death row inmate who decides to go on a hunger strike and whose constant rejection of his meals frustrates him at every turn.

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