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The Big Picture After eviscerating Netflix viewership records last year with her action film The Mother, Jennifer Lopez is set to return to the streamer in just over two months for the sci-fi thriller Atlas. The first trailer shared by Netflix today shows her thrown into the driver's seat of a mech suit and sent on a mission to recover a renegade robot with a connection to her past.
Lopez plays the titular Atlas Shepherd in the new film from Brad Peyton. A genius data analyst with misanthropic tendencies and an even greater distrust of Artificial Intelligence, she finds herself stuck in a predicament where the only way to save humanity from a rogue AI is to rely on another to help defeat it. The trailer immediately sets up her dire situation, showing Atlas injured and trapped on a snowy planet in a mech with flashing warning lights.
Peyton is best known for delivering spectacle on the big screen with films like Rampage and San Andreas and the trailer for Atlas promises much of the same with high-flying mech battles and explosive ground combat. The footage also offers a brief glimpse at Simu Liu's villain as he walks through the fiery wreckage of a battlefield. He and Lopez lead a starry cast that also includes recent American Fiction Oscar nominee Sterling K.
Who Else Is Behind 'Atlas'? Atlas marks a reunion for Peyton and writer Aron Eli Colaite who previously teamed up at Netflix for the post-apocalyptic teen dramedy Daybreak. Colaite is very familiar with the streamer, also co-creating and executive producing the comic adaptation Locke & Key with Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill.
2024 is off to a hot start for Lopez after leading with the release of her wild musical This Is Me... Now, which chronicles her journey of love through a mash-up of bizarre visuals, colorful costumes, powerful music, and plenty of varied star power, from Ben Affleck, Sofia Vergara, Fat Joe, and Keke Palmer to Jane Fonda, Trevor Noah, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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