Ben Affleck is headed to Netflix! The last few years may have been rough for the multiple Oscar-winning filmmaker, but like he did in years past, it looks like he’s shooting for another recovery by sticking to more grounded and low-key roles.

After going big with Batman v Superman and Justice League, Affleck seemed to be sidling towards the exit of the DC Extended Universe, and while I wouldn’t peg him as the problem with the films, his trepidation going forward is understandable.

Now, according to THR, Affleck will be joining Anne Hathaway in the film The Last Thing He Wanted, which comes from Mudbound director Dee Rees. Also joining the cast are Toby Jones, Rosie Perez, and Edi Gathegi. The flick is currently filming in Puerto Rico.

The film is based on the Joan Didion novel of the same name from 1996, and is being adapted by Marco Villalobos. Below is the official synopsis for the source novel:

“This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion’s incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it is covering up.

The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. Suddenly walking off the 1984 campaign, she finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father, Dick McMahon. She becomes embroiled in her Dick’s business though “she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing.” It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined, something that includes Ambassador-at-Large Treat Austin Morrison and Alexander Brokaw, the ambassador to an unnamed Caribbean island.

Into this startling vision of conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations, Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points up how “spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock.” As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly. This is our system, the one “trying to create a context for democracy and getting [its] hands a little dirty in the process.”

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SOURCE: THR