After finding success with Mudbound, director Dee Rees has returned to the Netflix fold for new thriller The Last Thing He Wanted. Check out the first trailer below, which features Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck and Willem Dafoe.
The Last Thing He Wanted adapts Joan Didion's eponymous novel (Rees co-wrote the script with Marco Villalobos) and finds Hathaway as journalist and single mother Elena McMahon, who has rigorously investigated Contra activity in Central America for years. Frustrated when her coverage is censored, relief comes in an unexpected package: her acerbic father (Dafoe) falls ill and leaves her a series of unfinished and unsavory arms deals in that very region. Now a pawn in a risky and unfamiliar game, surrounded by live ammunition in more ways than one, and alongside a US state official (Affleck) with whom she has a checkered past, Elena needs to parse her own story to survive. With her disenchanting life awaiting her back home, she is forced to consider what she really wants...
The film will have a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next Monday, and then arrives on Netflix on 21 February.