Ben Affleck will play with Anne Hathaway "The last thing he wanted"

Los Angeles .- Actor Ben Affleck will join The last thing he wanted film from filmmaker Dee Rees that he had previously signed for his casting to actress Anne Hathaway, reported today the Netflix digital platform in a press release, Efe Critic

This feature film, which is shot in Puerto Rico and will be released in 2019, will also feature the participation of Willem Dafoe, Toby Jones, Edi Gathegi and Latinos Rosie Perez and Mel Rodríguez.

Based on the homonymous novel by the American writer Joan Didion, The last thing he wanted will tell the story of a prestigious journalist (Hathaway) who leaving his position to take care of his father's work, He is a weapons dealer.

Dee Rees drew the attention of Hollywood with his previous film, Mudbound (2017), who also had the support of Netflix and for which he was nominated for the Oscars script adapted

The last thing he wanted will also not be the first Affleck project for Netflix, as he has the thriller Triple Frontier with the digital platform, in which he will be accompanied by Guatemalan Óscar Isaac and Chilean Pedro Pascal.

Oscar for best film for Argo (2012) and for the best screenplay of Good Will Hunting (1997), Affleck devotes a large part of his time in recent years to perform at Batman in Warner Bros.'s films, on the DC Comics universe.

On the other hand, Hathaway won the Oscar for Best Actress by The Miserables (2012) and shone on films such as The Princess Diaries (2001), The Devil Dresses Prada (2006), Colossal (2016) and the recent Eight of the Oceans (2018).