Jennifer Lopez is set to star in Annapurna Pictures’ drama Hustlers, which will be written and directed by Lorene Scafaria. The film is inspired by Jessica Pressler‘s New York Magazine article “The Hustlers at Scores,” which details a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Lopez will play the ringleader of a group of ambitious women, who take their plans a bit too far. Scafaria’s script takes place in the late aughts in New York City in the wake of the financial crisis and explores the toll it took on the livelihood of the dancers who relied on their Wall Street clientele. The story will also focus on themes of identity, loyalty, survival, and control.
Annapurna and Gloria Sanchez (Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Jessica Elbaum) are producing, with Scafaria co-producing. Lopez and her producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas will executive produce, while Alexandra Brown will serve as associate producer.
Scafaria’s script takes place in the late 2000s in New York City in the wake of the financial crisis and explores the toll it took on the livelihood of the dancers who relied on their Wall Street clientele.
Lopez, recently named the 2018 recipient of the MTV Video Music Awards’ Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, previously starred on the big screen in The Boy Next Door, Monster-in-Law, and The Wedding Planner, among other films. On TV, she has produced and served as a judge on the dance competition show World of Dance.
Source: Annapurna Pictures
