‘The Mother’: Release Date, Cast, & Everything Else About The Jennifer Lopez Movie

Jennifer Lopez certainly knows however to battalion a punch connected screen. While enactment movies were her mainstay successful the 90s, the superstar, 52, has since gone connected to go a rom-com queen and world-renowned singer. But present the Anaconda prima is putting her boots connected erstwhile movie with The Mother, retired May 12, 2023, via Netflix.

This time, the gritty enactment escapade has a grown-up tilt. In The Mother, J. Lo plays a deadly pistillate assassin who comes retired of hiding to support the girl that she gave up years before. In summation to starring successful the film, which is rated TV-MA, she served arsenic a producer.

While lone a fewer glimpses of The Mother person been revealed truthful far, the movie is definite to beryllium a hit. Netflix is already highlighting the flick arsenic 1 of their apical movies of 2023.

Want to cognize much astir The Mother? Learn everything astir the Netflix movie close here.

‘The Mother’s Netflix Cast

The Cast

J.Lo is the main star, arsenic her deadly assassin character. The girl she is risking it each to support is being played by newcomer Lucy Paez, who was past seen successful Silencio, according to Variety.

Jennifer Lopez plays an assassin successful the caller enactment thriller ‘The Mother.’ (Doane Gregory/Netflix)

Little is known astir the different characters. Omari Hardwick, who starred successful Zach Snyder’s Army of the Dead, volition beryllium taking the relation of an FBI agent, who is an state of the assasin.

The Handmaid’s Tale prima Joseph Fiennes volition beryllium playing 1 of the atrocious guys, arsenic good arsenic Gael García Bernal, prima of specified hits arsenic Y Tu Mama Tambien, Bad Education, and Mozart successful the Jungle. Rounding retired the formed is Paul Raci, who precocious starred successful Amazon’s Sound of Metal.

Back erstwhile she announced her Netflix concern successful 2021, Jennifer told Variety she thought determination was “no amended home” for her Nuyorican Productions “than a forward-leaning contented instauration institution that seeks to defy accepted contented and straight marketplace to the millions crossed the globe who nary longer presumption creation and amusement with the benignant of boundaries and limitations of the past.”

Director & Crew

Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green wrote the archetypal screenplay with revisions by Straight Outta Compton‘s Andrea Berloff, per Deadline. Later Peter Craig was added arsenic a co-writer.

The Mother was directed by Niki Caro, known for Disney’s Mulan remake, The Zookeeper’s Wife, and Whale Rider. Jennifer is besides acting arsenic shaper alongside Elaine Goldsmith Thomas for Nuyorican Productions.

Release Date & Where To Watch

The Mother volition spell consecutive to streaming connected May 12, 2023 connected Netflix. Fans should beryllium definite to person their logins ready, arsenic the movie won’t beryllium screening successful theaters.

Plot Details

Jennifer Lopez stars successful the upcoming ‘The Mother’. (Ana Carballosa/Netflix0

The Mother shows however acold a genitor volition spell for their child. As the synopsis from Netflix reads: “Years ago, a deadly assassin was forced to spell connected the run, which forced her to springiness up her lone daughter. Years later, the pistillate assassin returns her bid to support her girl from immoderate highly unsafe men.”

The action-packed thriller is said to beryllium “in the tone of the Luc Besson classical The Professional,” according to Deadline. That sounds astir right, arsenic The Professional saw a erstwhile assassin teaching his hitman trade to a young miss (Natalie Portman successful her star-making role).

Production Timeline

Jennifer was archetypal linked to The Mother erstwhile it was announced successful Jan. 2021 via Deadline. At the time, lone the superstar was attached to the cast. The task would go the archetypal task of her multi-year woody with Netflix, which was archetypal reported by Variety successful Jun. 2021. Joseph Fiennes, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Omari Hardwick’s casting emerged successful Sep. that year.

Shortly after, main photography began successful Vancouver, British Columbia connected October 4, 2021. Near the extremity of their clip successful Canada, filming was suspended connected January 11, 2022, owed to a COVID outbreak, arsenic reported by People.

They picked things backmost up successful March 2022, filming connected the Spanish land of Gran Canaria. The formed and unit truly made themselves astatine location connected Gran Canaria, which they utilized to picture Cuba successful the movie. The Mother wrapped shooting by the extremity of that month.

The Mother’s First Footage

In February 2021, a ace tiny tease of the movie was included successful Netflix’s 2022 Movie Preview Trailer, wherever Jennifer tin beryllium seen connected a sportfishing vessel successful a distant location, arsenic she looks astatine the camera and says, “Tonight is movie night.”

The archetypal authoritative teaser of The Mother premiered during Netflix’s TUDUM lawsuit connected September 24, 2022. The opening moments diagnostic Jennifer grooming for the combat of her life. “She needs extortion close now,” Jennifer says. There are glimpses of J.Lo connected the run, retired successful the mediate of the snowy wilderness, and more. “If there’s trouble, travel find me,” Jennifer says successful the trailer’s last moments.

What To Watch While You Wait

As The Mother sounds similar a gritty tale, wherefore not revisit immoderate of Jennifer’s different melodramatic movies portion waiting for the premiere? Check her retired successful Hustlers, The Boy Next Door, and her star-making crook alongside George Clooney successful 1998’s Out of Sight. 

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