It’s been a strange few weeks for Jennifer Lopez. Her recent hybrid drama-musical-self-awareness Prime Video exercise “This Is Me…Now” debuted to mixed critical reviews, and the accompanying album hasn’t necessarily burned up the charts. The good news is that Lopez has a big tentpole Netflix movie arriving on Netflix on Friday, May 24th, to distract from that endeavor, “Atlas.“
Directed by Brad Peyton, Netflix says the film centers on “Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, who joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.” The new teaser trailer released today seems to depict more of an against-all-odds survival film, but maybe there’s more than meets the eye here.
The sci-fi thriller also stars Sterling K. Brown, Simu Liu, and Mark Strong, among others. Lopez is also an executive producer through her Nuyorican Productions banner.
Peyton is best known for “Journey 2: Mysterious Island,” “San Andreas,” and “Rampage.” He also co-created and executive-produced “Daybreak,” which ran for Netflix for one season in 2019.
Lopez’s other upcoming projects include the Amazon MGM Studios melodrama “Unstoppable: The Anthony Robles Story,” which should hit Prime Video sometime this year. She also announced a 30+ city American tour that will begin on June 26 in Orlando, Florida, and end on August 17 in New York City.
You can watch the trailer embedded in this post. “Atlas” will launch on Netflix worldwide on May 24.
