Jennifer Lopez is sharing her love story with fans — in the only remarkable way a pop superstar can.
On Wednesday, the music icon, 54, released the trailer for her new movie "This Is Me… Now: A Love Story", which arrives in tandem with her highly anticipated new album and first release in a decade.
Based on the captivating footage, it appears as though the 65-minute project set to hit streaming on Amazon Prime Video on February 16 — the same day that her ninth studio album drops — finds the singer/actress on a journey through both dreamscapes and challenges grounded in reality to find love.
According to a press release, Lopez created the project described as a “narrative-driven cinematic odyssey, steeped in mythological storytelling and personal healing,” along with Grammy-winning director Dave Meyers.
The official synopsis reads: “Amazon original showcases her journey to love through her own eyes. With fantastical costumes, breathtaking choreography, and star-studded cameos, this panorama is an introspective retrospective of Jennifer’s resilient heart.”
The trailer offers a glimpse of the Grammy-nominated artist opening up her heart and facing heartbreak with different lovers in various fantastical worlds.
“I learned the hard way — not all love stories have a happy ending," the Golden Globe-nominated star says at one point in the clip. "Whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, the answer was always in love."
Lopez also declares, “I know what they say about me, about hopeless romantics: That we’re weak. But I’m not weak.”
The movie will also see Lopez joined by her husband Ben Affleck — who was famously the inspiration for her 2002 album "This Is Me… Then" — as well as Fat Joe, Trevor Noah, Kim Petras, Post Malone, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, Jenifer Lewis, Jay Shetty, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sadhguru, Tony Bellissimo, Derek Hough, Trevor Jackson, Paul Raci, Bella Gagliano, Brandon Delsid, Ashley Versher, Malcolm Kelner, Alix Angelis, Danielle Larracuente and Matthew Law, per a release.
The “On the Floor” singer’s upcoming project serves as the follow-up to 2002’s "This Is Me … Then" and comes 10 years after the release of her last full-length project, "A.K.A".
Speaking about the album in her 2022 Vogue cover story, Lopez described the album as the “culmination of who I am as a person and an artist.”
She added: “People think they know things about what happened to me along the way, the men I was with — but they really have no idea, and a lot of times they get it so wrong,".
"There’s a part of me that was hiding a side of myself from everyone. And I feel like I’m at a place in my life, finally, where I have something to say about it,”.
While the record has long been in the works, the hitmaker officially announced its release date in November 2023. She’s since dropped the lead single for the 13-track project: “Can’t Get Enough,” which arrived with its accompanying music video on January 10.
Ahead of the visual’s premiere, the “Let’s Get Loud” singer addressed fans in a live stream in which she said that she connected with the track when she was hoping to find a love song that she "can perform."
"I love a love song, but I need something — and I kept saying this to them — that I can perform," she said of "Can't Get Enough".
"So when we first heard this song, everyone just knew that this was the one to launch This Is Me…Now," Lopez added. "It has an energy, it has a happiness to it, and you feel it all."
When it came to creating the visual, Lopez said she went to Affleck for advice.
"Not that he’s ever really made videos or anything like that, but I just trust his opinion and his ideas. Nobody kind of knows my story or me more than he does. I really feel like he gets me and he understands me, obviously," she noted.
"All of you have been following my journey, and I think you’ve seen me," the pop star added. "What I wanted to tell everybody with the album... is true love actually exists."
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