Jennifer Lopez will be heading up Netflix’s newest action thriller, The Mother (not to be confused with the other Netflix original, I Am Mother, or the other-other Netflix original, Mother).

Niki Caro is in talks to direct after helming Disney’s live-action Mulan remake, from a screenplay written by Lovecraft Country’s Misha Green and revised by Straight Outta Compton’s Andrea Berloff. Lopez, who is also set to produce, will play an assassin who comes out of hiding to save a daughter she gave up years ago.

Lopez was already confirmed to be teaming up with Netflix for a movie adapted from Isabella Maldonado’s novel “The Cipher”, which will see Lopez as an FBI agent entangled in a serial killer’s web. The actress has numerous other films currently in the works, including the romantic comedy Marry Me co-starring Owen Wilson, the upcoming crime drama The Godmother, and of course Lionsgate’s Shotgun Wedding, from which Armie Hammer recently departed amidst abuse allegations.

Little more is known of The Mother’s plot, though Deadline has reported that it will be in the spirit of Luc Besson’s cult classic The Professional.

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