In the first trailer for the forthcoming Netflix movie The Mother, Jennifer Lopez once again demonstrates her versatility. In the film, Lopez portrays the titular mother, who is also a vicious assassin. She had to give up her kid years earlier because she was on the run from the types of people you would encounter if you worked as an assassin. Lopez’s character, however, emerges from hiding to defend the youngster when she realises her life is in danger. This teaser, which was presented today at Netflix’s TUDUM showcase event, shows Lopez preparing for war with an intensive training montage. Despite being less than a minute long, the new film will have your heart racing as Lopez takes swift action to defend her kid.
THe short clip provides us with a look into her character’s backstory by showing her firing a sniper rifle while dressed in what appears to be military camouflage. Some very nasty-looking evil people show up there, too, probably to injure her daughter and coax her out of hiding. Joseph Fiennes, who plays one of the villains in The Handmaid’s Tale, seems particularly battered in a quick, almost-missable sight of his character emerging from a snowy treeline, half-blind and covered in burn scars. The Netflix action film also has Lucy Paez as the daughter, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci, and Gael Garca Bernal, who will soon be seen as the lead in the Marvel series Werewolf by Night, which will premiere on Disney+ next month.
Only Lopez, Fiennes, and Paez are truly featured in the teaser clip, and otherwise, we know very little about their characters. Lopez’s first look contract with Netflix, negotiated last summer, includes a number of future projects, including The Mother. Halftime, a monumental documentary that covers her whole career, debuted back in June. After The Mother, Jennifer Lopez will be seen in the upcoming science fiction thriller Atlas, about a rogue artificial intelligence, alongside Simu Liu (of Shang Chi and the Ten Rings) and Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us).
On the other side, the first photos from Jennifer Lopez’s upcoming romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding, in which she co-stars with Josh Duhamel, Lenny Kravitz, and Jennifer Coolidge, have been revealed on Prime Video. In The Mother, Niki Caro takes the helm from a script by Lovecraft Country’s Misha Green. There is no confirmed date for the premiere of The Mother on Netflix, but it will occur in the month of May 2023.