In 2021, Jennifer Lopez signed a contract with Netflix to star in several projects. The first of them was Mother (2023), and twelve months later comes the turn of Atlas (2024), a film Science fiction set in space. This same year it premiered on Amazon Prime Video This Is Me… Now: A Love Story (2024) as promotion of her new album, and now subscribers of the ‘N’ platform in Spain will be able to see the singer and actress in a different register.
The movie starring Jennifer Lopez arrives this May 24 to the Netflix catalog, being one of the most notable premieres of the streaming platform for this month. Atlas It is the singer’s debut in a space science fiction film, and for this she has surrounded herself with stars such as Simu Liu, the Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla and Mark Strong.
‘Atlas’, the Jennifer Lopez film: synopsis
In AtlasJennifer Lopez plays Atlas Shepherd, a brilliant anti-terrorist data analyst who is also a misanthrope. She has a deep distrust in artificial intelligence, and that is why he joins a mission to capture a rogue robot with whom he shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, the only hope he has to save all of humanity from the AI is to trust it.
Jennifer Lopez’s character in Atlas “He is someone who has closed himself off from the world, doesn’t trust anyone and doesn’t want to have anything to do with AI”, as the singer herself states on the Netflix website. Of course, for the actress Wall Street Scammers (2019) the film has more nuances: “Deep down it is a story of friendship. I always see everything as a love story, but this one is different, since two beings connect in disastrous situations, and teach each other to be more human,” he says.
For Brad Peyton Director of Atlasthe heart of the Netflix movie is “how difficult it is to trust people.” Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of deep relationships in life, and that you cannot try to survive without placing trust in others. The tape lasts almost two hours and can be enjoyed from May 24 on the streaming platform.
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