But what she really wants to do is edit!
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wants → want → what
Sources tell Page Six Hollywood that superstar Jennifer Lopez has been butting heads with “Forrest Gump” filmmaker Robert Zemeckis — the director of her new big-budget movie, “The Last Mrs. Parrish.”
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Lopez → tell → movie
Lopez has ideas on how to fix the twisty thriller for Netflix, and they don’t necessarily align with Zemeckis’ vision.
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they → have → vision
“She’s tried to take it over.
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She → try → it
She fancies herself a filmmaker,” says a Hollywood source.
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source → fancy → ?
“It’s been testing terrible.
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It → test → ?
Lopez panicked and has been in the editing room.
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Lopez → panic → room
Behind the scenes, everyone’s saying it’s a Blake Lively [situation].”
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it → say → scenes
(Lively famously made her own cut of “It Ends With Us,” which differed from that of her director and co-star Justin Baldoni.
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which → make → director
The divergence may have contributed to a falling out that led to an epic legal battle between the two.
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that → contribute → two
Netflix said in a statement: “The film tested well, particularly with fans of Jennifer.”
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film → say → Jennifer
Meanwhile, another “Last Mrs. Parrish” source was more sympathetic to Lopez’s alleged power grab.
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source → allege → grab
“She’s taking over…
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She → take → ?
But she’s just trying to salvage the movie,” they said.
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they → try → movie
Yet another source says Lopez has wrested control from Zemeckis specifically during the editing process and “has taken it over.”
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Lopez → say → it
Lopez and Zemeckis were working on the cut together last week — an unusual scenario for a director and star — and are expected to meet next week to discuss next steps.
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Lopez → work → steps
Netflix, Lopez and Zemeckis said in a joint statement: “As we have said to Page Six, this reporting is categorically false.
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reporting → say → Page
Any suggestion that the filmmakers are not working in unison is without merit.
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filmmakers → work → merit
There’s plenty at stake on the film, which cost $100 million, sources say.
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sources → ’ → million
The project, which began shooting in September 2025, isn’t expected to make it to the screen until sometime in 2027, we hear.
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we → begin → 2027
It’s based on a 2021 best seller about a con artist (Isabel May) who targets a wealthy couple (Lopez and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as her next victims.
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who → base → victims
The plot follows the femme fatale as she dupes the pair by befriending the wife and seducing the husband — with the master plan of becoming the “next Mrs. Parrish.”
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she → follow → plan
But the deceiver discovers that the wife is far more complex than she could have imagined.
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she → discover → ?
(Making the movie has been complex, too, with JLo perhaps infiltrating the editing room!)
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JLo → make → room
The star recently made the 2026 rom-com “Office Romance” for Netflix (co-starring Brett Goldstein), and has also starred in films for the streamer including, “Atlas,” “Halftime” and “The Mother.”
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com → make → Atlas
Zemeckis’ credits include classics such as “Romancing the Stone,” “Cast Away,” “Contact” and “Back to the Future.”
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credits → include → Future
The alleged editing room conflict comes at a time when the studio is transitioning from the last Mrs. Netflix — ousted chief content officer Bela Bajaria — to former Disney TV chief, Peter Rice, as the new content boss.
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studio → allege → boss
There are still major questions to be answered on the film front at the streamer — including whether or not Rice will replace film head Dan Lin, who exited after Bajaria.
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who → be → Bajaria
There has been speculation that Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca, the recently dispatched Warner Bros. film heads, will fill the role.
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Abdy → dispatch → role
But sources say Rice might not even fill the position at all.
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Rice → say → position
“He wants to get to know the talent that’s there,” says a source familiar with Netflix’s inner workings — adding that Rice wants to stabilize the streamer’s current team rather than add another new layer.
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Rice → want → layer
Multiple sources privy to Rice’s first steps say he is empowering a trio of VPs — Ori Marmur, Kiera Goldberg and Jason Young — to go directly to him rather than bring in an outsider.
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