Last Days (2025 film)

Last Days is a 2025 American biographical drama film about John Allen Chau, a Christian missionary who was killed while attempting to evangelize the self-isolated Sentinelese people. It is directed by Justin Lin, with screenwriter Ben Ripley adapting the article "The Last Days of John Allen Chau" by Alex Perry. It premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.^[1]

Last Days
Last Days cast at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Directed by	Justin Lin
Screenplay by	Ben Ripley
Based on	"The Last Days of John Allen Chau" by Alex Perry
Produced by	Justin Lin Ellen Goldsmith-Vein Eric Robinson Clayton Townsend Guja Quaranta
Starring	Sky Yang Radhika Apte Ali Fardi Naveen Andrews Ken Leung Toby Wallace Ciara Bravo Claire Price Dieudonné Ngabo Marny Kennedy
Cinematography	Oliver Bokelberg
Edited by	Dylan Highsmith
Music by	Nathan Alexander
Production companies	Perfect Storm Entertainment Outside Magazine Gotham Group Brillstein Entertainment Partners Hungry Bull Productions
Distributed by	Vertical
Release dates	January 28, 2025 (2025-01-28) (Sundance) October 24, 2025 (2025-10-24)
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

Justin Lin & Oliver Bokelberg (l-r) at a Last Days screening at Sundance 2025

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.

See also

• The Mission (2023 film)