Rees shares a sneak peek of her script for The Last Thing He Wanted, which stars Anne Hathaway and Willem Dafoe.
The Oscar nominee’s long-awaited follow-up to assembles an all-star cast in its innovative take on Didion’s ’80s-set novel of the same name. It’s a short albeit mightily complex book, featuring ambiguous narration from an unknown figure. The story centers on journalist Elena McMahon , whose interest in Contra activity in Central America and tenuous relationship with her arms-dealer father jointly land her in a region — and a plot — with which she is dangerously unfamiliar.
for adaptation. “Didion’s prose is so internal, and this is such a character deep-dive,” she teases of the film to EW. “[With] , I was starting from a script. The book itself wasn’t one I would’ve chosen. This was a book of choice: It’s small but dense. It had that density where it felt like there was more to blow out.” She enlisted writer Marco Villalobos to take the lead on the script and found his choices immediately compelling. “It’s almost unadaptable!” she says.
Villalobos’ initial choices were to center Elena’s perspective, allowing the audience to get lost in her own maze right along with her, and enhancing the roles for the characters of color around her, particularly as she lands in Central America. “I really needed to feel like I was in the ground of those places at the time I was writing,” he says. “These are places I’ve been to before and I’ve spent a lot of time in the communities in Latin America.
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