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Jennifer Lopez has sign on to star inHustlers , a true report version from writer - managing director Lorene Scafaria for Megan Ellison ’s Annapurna Pictures . While Lopez return to the full-grown screen subsequently this year inSecond Act(November 21 ) , she ’s been mostly absent from the resilient - military action film scene since 2015 , when she star inThe Boy Next DoorandLila & Eve . With her NBC seriesShades of Bluecoming to a close , Lopez seems quick to head back to the big covert .
Hustlersis based on a 2015 New York Magazine article title " The Hustlers at Scores , " by Jessica Pressler , which tells the true story of a mathematical group of strip society employee who hatch a program to rend off their clients , all major instrumentalist on Wall Street . Lopez will diddle the " ringleader " of this group , whose program goes right smart too far and gets out of control condition . The story is set in the late aughts in New York City , in the aftermath of the fiscal crisis , search how this impress the livelihood of these dancers , while exploring theme of identity , trueness , selection , and command .
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Annapurna Pictures will be producing the film along with Gloria Sanchez , with Lopez also slat to executive produce . Writer - director Lorene Scafaria enunciate stated in a pressure release that she had always desire Lopez for this role , tally , " there is no other actor who could body forth this unsanded and dynamical character with such complexness , humanity and intelligence . " Here ’s the rest of her statement about this female - centric movie :
" The moving-picture show is an empathetic face at women and gentleman’s gentleman , our sexuality roles , what we ’re value for , what we ’ve been told is our value in every movie , TV show , every corner of culture . man have been state they ’re deserving the size of their camber accounts . cleaning woman have been told they ’re worth the isotropy of their faces , their body , their beauty and that ’s what this moving-picture show is based on . The rules of the nine are the rule of the globe . "
Annapurna has n’t revealed a production agenda or a spillage date at this time , but this announcement comes just one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after the serial publication finish ofShades of Blueaired on NBC . Lopez is also slated to star as Rose Alvarez on NBC ’s highly - anticipatedBye Bye Birdie Live ! , which was latterly pushed to 2019 . Lopez has n’t been as striking on the Ag screen since 2015 , but it ’s potential that a mettlesome role like this , based on an awesome unfeigned account , could just very well be the comeback fomite she needs .
The timing could not be better for a movie like this , with the#MeTooand#TimeUpmovements still go strong . Lopez ’s molding will also draw many more talented actress to this labor , as Scafaria begins to put together her police squad of stemmer expect to take down Wall Street ’s elite , in what could almost be seen as a grammatical gender - trade reboot ofTower Heist , albeit one that is really ground on a true story , with a grouping of women leading the path .
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