After a pair of music documentaries This is Me…Now: A Love Story and The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Jennifer Lopez is back with a proper lead role in an action flick. Streaming on Netflix next month is Atlas, a sci-fi film from director Brad Peyton, who really doesn’t do anything but blockbusters including San Andreas, Rampage, and more. And like so many sci-fi movies lately, this one concerns artificial intelligence.
The title comes from the name of Lopez’s character, Atlas Shepherd, a data analyst with a dislike for AI who joins a mission to capture a rogue robot, only to need to trust that AI when all of humanity is threatened.
J-Lo is surrounded by an impressive supporting cast that includes Simu Liu, Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown, Mark Strong, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, and Lana Parrilla. The script is by Leo Sardarian and former X-Men comic book writer Aron Eli Coleite.
Here’s the synopsis: Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, 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 A.I. is to trust it.
Atlas hits Netflix on May 14th.
