Willem Dafoe joins The Last Thing He Wanted

Willem Dafoe joins The Last Thing He Wanted

 Willem Dafoe has been roped in to star in crime drama "The Last Thing He Wanted".The 62-year-old actor will play father to Anne Hathaway's hardscrabble journalist Elena McMahon, who gets embroiled in the dangerous world of arms dealing, Variety reported.The film is the big-screen adaptation of Joan Didion's 1996 political thriller, which will be directed by "Mudbound" helmer Dee Rees.

Marco Villalobos will co-write the script with Rees.Elevated's Cassian Elwes will produce and The Fyzz Facility's Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones will produce and finance the project.