Willem Dafoe Joins Anne Hathaway for Upcoming Netflix Flick THE LAST THING HE WANTED

According to Variety, Willem Dafoe has found his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated performance in "The Florida Project," as the veteran actor has signed on to co-star with Anne Hathaway in the Netflix pic "The Last Thing He Wanted."

Dee Rees, who wrote and directed "Mudbound" for Netflix, will write and helm the film.

The story is based on the 1996 novel by Joan Didion and centers on hardscrabble journalist Elena McMahon, who finds herself on dangerous ground as the Iran Contra Affair's arms for drugs plot reaches its tipping point.

Cassian Elwes and Dee Rees serve as producers on the film, along with Jamin O'Brien, Wayne Godfrey and Robert Jones as executive producers.

Scott Stuber, head of Netflix's film group says about the project, "Dee Rees is an incredibly talented filmmaker, who continues to make provocative and entertaining films. We are thrilled to continue our relationship with Dee and proud to have her part of the Netflix family."

Dafoe had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire(1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Dafoe received his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role as Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988, Dafoe played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and starred with Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning, both of which were controversial. Following small roles in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Wild at Heart (1990), Dafoe began a six-film collaboration with director Paul Schrader with the drama Light Sleeper (1992). Dafoe starred with Madonna in the critically reviled erotic thriller Body of Evidence in 1993 and then co-starred in Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1996), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), and The Boondock Saints (1999). After receiving his second Best Supporting Actor nomination for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire(2000), Dafoe played Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002) and played the villains in both Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and xx: STATE OF THE UNION (2005). In 2009, he starred in the experimental film Antichrist, one of his three films with Lars von Trier. Dafoe then appeared in The Fault in Our Stars, John Wick, The Grand Budapest Hotel (all 2014), The Great Wall (2016), Murder on the Orient Express, and The Florida Project (both 2017), for which he received his third Best Supporting Actor nomination. Dafoe has also had voice-over roles in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Fantastic Mr. FOX (2009), John Carter (2012), and Death Note (2017), as well as the video game adaptations of Spider-Man and Finding Nemo, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003), and Beyond: Two Souls (2013).

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