Jennifer Lopez has always kept one foot in her pop star world, the J-Lo side, and her career as an actress. But recent weeks have seen her straddling both more than she has in a while. Lopez recently released her hybrid concert movie This is Me…Now on Prime Video, with an accompanying album. And now Lopez turns to another streamer, Netflix, for a big sci-fi action thriller, Atlas, that arrives in May.
The film is directed by Brad Peyton, who doesn’t really do small movies as the director of San Andreas, Rampage, and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Lopez stars as an analyst with a distrust of artificial intelligence who is sent on a mission to capture a rogue robot.
Joining Lopez in the cast are Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown, Shang-Chi and Barbie actor Simu Liu, Mark Strong, and Lana Parrilla. Atlas has a script by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite who previously worked with Peyton on the short-lived Netflix series, Daybreak.
Here’s the synopsis: 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.
Atlas hits Netflix on May 24th.
