The Last Thing He Wanted is currently filming in Puerto Rico and will be directed by Rees from the script co-written by her alongside Marco Villalobos.
Oscar winner Ben Affleck (Argo, Justice League, Gone Girl) has joined The Last Thing He Wanted adaptation from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dee Rees (Mudbound) for Netflix,according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Last Thing He Wanted centers on a hardscrabble journalist named Elena McMahon (Hathaway) who inherits her father’s position as a dealmaker — an arms dealmaker.
Affleck will join the already announced Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, Ocean’s 8) in the cast.