In director Brad Peyton’s Netflix sci-fi motion film, “Atlas,” Jennifer Lopez stars because the titular character, a knowledge analyst who should flip to AI to assist save the Earth from an evil robotic (Simu Liu).
“I think this movie does a good job of showing how AI could go incredibly wrong, and this is how it could go really right,” Lopez instructed me on the movie’s Los Angeles premiere.
The multi-hyphenate has skilled the exploitative facet of AI, with advertisements “selling skincare that I know nothing about” utilizing manipulated pictures of her face lined in “wrinkles.” “It’s really scary,” she mentioned, including, “Right away we had them stealing our faces. So, yes, [AI] is really scary.”
Lopez additional defined, “I think you should be respectful of AI…We have to be open to all possibilities. These movies that are talking about AI — especially this one — do a really good job of showing both sides.”
Sterling Ok. Brown, who performs a army officer preventing alongside Atlas, mentioned he was gobsmacked by Lopez’s work ethic. “Moguls be moguling,” he mentioned. “She was talking earlier today how she has brought down her level of commitments. I would have marveled to see her at full tilt, because it looked like it was full tilt when we were together. There was always something happening.”
In one scene, Brown and Lopez’s characters are left badly overwhelmed and bruised by the villains. “We had nice little side conversations between takes,” Brown mentioned. “I asked her about being a Fly Girl [on ‘In Living Color’]. She had a few good Rosie Perez stories.”
“Atlas” is out there on Netflix, the place it has been one of many streamer’s prime 10 most watched films all through Memorial Day weekend.
