Ben Affleck Joins Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted Cast

Ben Affleck is set to star in Dee Rees’ adaptation of The Last Thing He Wanted, which will launch on Netflix. Netflix announced on Tuesday that Affleck has joined a cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Toby Jones, Rosie Perez, Edi Gathegi, Willem Dafoe, and Mel Rodriguez.

The Last Thing He Wanted is based on the novel by Joan Didion. It centers on a hardscrabble journalist named Elena McMahon (Hathaway) who inherits her father’s position as a dealmaker — an arms dealmaker. She soon finds herself on dangerous ground as the Iran-Contra Affair’s arms-for-drugs plot reaches its tipping point.

The film is currently in production in Puerto Rico and will be directed by Rees from the script co-written by her alongside Marco Villalobos. Rees will also produce along with Cassian Elwes. Jamin O’Brien, Wayne Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane, and James Harris are executive producing. The movie is expected to debut in 2019.