Jennifer Lopez To Star In and Produce a Serial Killer Drama THE CIPHER For Netflix
Jennifer Lopez partnering up with Netflix to produce and star in a film adaptation of the bestselling book The Cipher.
Lopez will take on the role of FBI agent Nina Guerrera, “who finds herself drawn into a serial killer’s case after he strategically posts complex codes and riddles online. The codes correspond to recent murders, designed to lure her into a cat-and-mouse chase.”
The film is being written by Isabella Maldonado. I enjoy a good serial killer crime story, and I hope this is good. I’m not the biggest fan of Lopez, but we’ll see how this turns out.
Lopez has a few movies in the pipeline that include Marry Me from Universal Pictures, The Godmother, and Shotgun Wedding.
Here’s a description of the book:
FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera escaped a serial killer’s trap at sixteen. Years later, when she’s jumped in a Virginia park, a video of the attack goes viral. Legions of new fans are not the only ones impressed with her fighting skills. The man who abducted her eleven years ago is watching. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation…but his games are just beginning. And he’s using the internet to invite the public to play along.
His coded riddles may have made him a depraved social media superstar—an enigmatic cyber-ghost dubbed “the Cipher”—but to Nina he’s a monster who preys on the vulnerable. Partnered with the FBI’s preeminent mind hunter, Dr. Jeffrey Wade, who is haunted by his own past, Nina tracks the predator across the country. Clue by clue, victim by victim, Nina races to stop a deadly killer while the world watches.
Source: Variety