Netflix’s Atlas turns Jennifer Lopez right into a mech pilot in first trailer

Set in a wild future the place humanity’s begun utilizing large AI-powered robots to wage struggle, Atlas tells the story of how knowledge analyst Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez) is pressured to work with a renegade machine to save lots of the Earth. Regardless of the mechs’ widespread use all through the world, Shepherd can’t shake her deep mistrust for the pondering machines, which look like designed to function autonomously or underneath the management of a human pilot.

However when Shepherd’s tapped to develop into a part of a covert mission to take out a rogue mech, she finds herself thrust into hazard that solely a machine can defend her from. Although Atlas’ new trailer makes it onerous to get a way of the movie’s plot or scope, it’s clear that Peyton and cinematographer John Schwartzman are going for an epic vibe judging from pictures of Atlas plummeting to the bottom in her robotic from an exploding ship.

It additionally seems to be like we’ll be seeing Sterling Ok. Brown and Simu Liu chewing up surroundings once they’re not busy getting in on the motion themselves. However what’s actually going to make or break Atlas when it premieres on Might twenty fourth might be going to be the period of time the film spends simply letting its robots do sick methods for us all to ogle.