[ad_1] Anne Hathaway to star in Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted Oscar winner Anne Hathaway ( Les Misérables , Ocean’s 8 ) will lead The Last Thing He Wanted adaptation from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dee Rees for Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. The director is reteaming with the streaming service after their collaboration on the Academy Award-nominated drama Mudbound . RELATED: Netflix June 2018 Movie and TV Titles Announced 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. She soon finds herself on dangerous ground as the Iran-Contra Affair’s arms-for-drugs plot reaches its tipping point. The film is based on the novel by the same name from author Joan Didion, who is better known for her award-winning autobiographical work including The Year of Magical Thinking and The White Album . Scott Stuber, the Netflix group head, said: “Dee Rees is an incredibly tal...