Jennifer Lopez's New Movie Sparks Confusion

Jennifer Lopez has made a movie, which might be a biopic or possibly a sci-fi thriller.

The multi-hyphened talent has dropped the trailer for This Is Me...Now: A Love Story, co-written by Lopez herself and described as a "narrative-driven cinematic odyssey." It premieres on Amazon's Prime Video on February 16.

The roughly two-minute trailer shows Lopez in a number of different scenarios including recreating Gene Kelly's famous Singing In The Rain lamppost scene, dancing in a futuristic-looking factory with all-female workers and getting an intervention from her friends for being a "sex addict."

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Still photos of Jennifer Lopez from the trailer of her new movie 'This Is Me...Now'. Amazon Content Services

Other stand out moments include Lopez getting married multiple times, which seems to be a reference to infamous number of real-life weddings, wearing a hazmat suit and jetting across a lake in a speedboat.

"How does someone sleep that way, when your heart never goes to sleep," Lopez's character says at one point after describing the movie as one for hopeless romantics.

Text over the trailer reads, "This is her story, in her own words," and finishes up with her character saying, "whenever somebody asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered 'in love'."

Also described as "cinematic" and "intimate" experience, the movie has a star-studded line-up including Lopez's most recent husband, Ben Affleck. Other cameos include Fat Joe, Trevor Noah, Kim Petras, Post Malone, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, Jenifer Lewis, Jay Shetty, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Derek Hough, but none of the famous faces appeared in the trailer.

People took to X, formerly Twitter, admitting the trailer left them with more questions than answers as to what the film was actually about.

"This is like the opposite of all those trailers in recent years that give away the whole movie because after watching this I still have absolutely no clue what this movie is in any capacity let alone plot-wise," wrote one person.

Another added: "please f***** watch this batshit trailer."

And a third commented: "Is this a musical? is it a rom com? is it an action movie? what the hell is going on in that trailer. I feel like i saw 6 different movies in the span of the 2mins i just watched 😭"

Newsweek contacted Prime Video by email for comment.

The film is likely to coincide with Lopez's album of the same name and the sequel to her third studio album, This Is Me... Then.

At least one of the songs on the 13-track album references Affleck after they rekindled their romance, based on her announcement of the album on Instagram.

Entitled "Dear Ben pt. ll," the new song is a follow-up to "Dear Ben" on the This Is Me... Then album that she released when the pair first began their original relationship in the early 2000s.

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