Jennifer plays fierce killer in ‘The Mother’

Makers drop the official trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie ‘The Mother’ recently. The trailer shows Jennifer Lopez playing an assassin turned fierce mama bear who emerges from hiding in the Alaskan wilderness to protect her daughter.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest look at director Niki Caro’s action-adventure pic opens with JLo in a flashback reliving giving birth to a baby girl. But then she has to give up her daughter courtesy of her work. An FBI agent with whom she has cut a deal tells her the only way to protect her new-born from two dangerous assailants on the loose is to disappear. Cut to now, her daughter, Zoe is 12 and JLo is back to rescue her from a killer on the loose.

“I’m a killer. But I’m also a mother”, Lopez says in the trailer, perfectly encapsulating the film in one line. Lopez’s gun-toting character in the trailer while stabbing or head-butting the bad guys, or firing back from a motorcycle or snowmobile while being hotly pursued.

Soon after the makers unveiled the trailer, fans swamped the comment section with red hearts and fire emoticons.

The story is developed by Misha Green who also wrote the exceptional Lovecraft country and Underground. The screenplay is written by Andrea Berloff, Peter Craig.

‘The Mother’ also stars Joseph Fiennes, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal. The film is set to debut on Netflix on May 12.