Jennifer Lopez is once more teaming with Netflix, this time for an auteur’s newest challenge. Lopez is ready to star in an adaptation of the e book “The Final Mrs. Parrish,” directed by Robert Zemeckis and arrange at Netflix, IndieWire has confirmed.
The 2017 bestseller “The Final Mrs. Parrish” bought over 1,000,000 copies and was a Reese Witherspoon e book membership decide. A “Proficient Mr. Ripley”-esque thriller, the e book follows a lady and con artist named Amber who schemes to befriend and finally undermine a socialite named Daphne and her household, together with seducing her husband, all whereas making an attempt to maintain the skeletons of her previous below wraps.
The challenge is presently in improvement with a script from Andrea Berloff (“Straight Outta Compton,” “The Mom”) and John Gatins (Zemeckis’ “Flight,” in addition to “Kong: Cranium Island”). No extra casting was introduced.
Netflix picked up the rights to “The Final Mrs. Parrish” approach again in 2021 and on the time had set Lisa Rubin, creator of the streamer’s 2017 collection “Gypsy,” to jot down the script.
Lopez can also be producing the movie through her Nuyorican Productions banner, which has a inventive partnership with Netflix and has produced Lopez-starring movies like “The Mom” and “Atlas.” Lopez and her producing associate Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and longtime supervisor Benny Medina, who can even produce “Mrs. Parrish,” are overseeing a slate of movies and TV collection, with an emphasis on initiatives that help numerous feminine actors, writers, and filmmakers.
“Mrs. Parrish” additionally falls below one other cope with producer Liza Chasin for her 3dot Productions, which presently has “The Life Listing” starring Sofia Carson sitting at #1 on Netflix’s International High 10 Movies checklist for English-language titles. Molly Sims can also be producing for One thing Completely satisfied Productions. Govt producers on the challenge are Margaret Chernin for 3dot Productions, Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine, Jack Rapke, and Derek Hogue.
Lopez most lately starred in “Kiss of the Spider Girl,” which premiered at Sundance and might be launched by Roadside Sights and Lionsgate later this yr. The movie is a musical adaptation of the stage manufacturing primarily based on the unique e book, which itself was first tailored as a story characteristic within the ’80s that received William Damage an Oscar. Final yr, she starred within the sports activities drama “Unstoppable.”
Zemeckis’ most up-to-date movie was 2024’s “Right here” with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.
Deadline first reported the information.