Terminator and The Creator meet mecha-based storytelling in this Netflix sci-fi movie mash-up.
Netflix has shared the first trailer for Atlas, a new Jennifer Lopez-starring sci-fi film that looks like a cross between Terminator and The Creator with Evangelion-like mechs thrown in for good measure.
Set for release in late May, the teaser for one of 2024’s many new Netflix movies doesn’t give too much away about its plot. Suffice it to say, though, it appears to be a potentially gripping sci-fi spectacle that will hopefully – I write with as much conviction as I can – contain enough substance to go alongside its flashy visuals.
Per a Netflix press release, Lopez will play the film’s protagonist Atlas Shepherd, a “misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence”. However, Shepherd is forced to undergo something of an internal paradigm shift when the mission she’s on becomes compromised, meaning she has to team up with a renegade sentient robot if she has any hope of saving humanity from the machines that threaten our existence.
