An official trailer has just dropped for the new movie Atlas. Coming to Netflix on May 24, the film features Jennifer Lopez in her next major role for the streaming platform following the success of The Mother.

In Atlas, Lopez plays a researcher who embarks on a mission to capture a robot on the run, with whom she has a history. The film also touches on artificial intelligence with Lopez's character afraid to embrace it until she's left with no other choice. The trailer, which also features Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings actor Simu Liu, can be watched below.

The official synopsis for Atlas is as follows: "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 AI is to trust it."

Along with Lopez and Simu Liu (Barbie), the film also stars Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), Gregory James Cohan (The VelociPastor), Abraham Popoola (The Marvels), Lana Parrilla (Once Upon a Time), and Mark Strong (Shazam! Fury of the Gods). Brad Peyton directed and the script was written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite.

“The heart of Atlas is really about trust and how difficult it is to trust people,” Brad Peyton said of the film, per Netflix. “Atlas is told through the lens of a woman who’s learning to trust after undergoing a trauma that’s upended her life. It’s a reminder of how we have to have deep, meaningful relationships in our lives, in one way, shape, or form. That you can’t do everything by yourself; you have to choose to trust people at a certain point and let them in.”

Lopez added, "I loved that this is a big sci-fi action movie, but at its core, it’s a story of friendship — and a love story, in a way. I always see everything as a love story, but this is a different kind of love between two beings who connect in disastrous circumstances, and teach each other how to be more human.”

Jennifer Lopez Is Also Producing Atlas

Lopez is producing alongside Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Productions; Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson for ASAP Entertainment; Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures; and Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for Berlanti/Schechter Films. Samson Mucke and Michael Riley McGrath are executive producing.

Atlas will premiere on Netflix on Friday, May 24, 2024.

Source: Netflix