The Last Mrs. Parrish | Robert Zemeckis

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Netflix and Jennifer Lopez are building on their strong partnership for the superstar’s next project with plans to team her with an iconic director. Sources tell Deadline that Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis has come on to direct an adaptation of The Last Mrs. Parrish with Lopez on board to star.

The film is in development with Andrea Berloff and Oscar-nominee John Gatins penning the script. This marks a reunion for Zemeckis and Gatins, who worked together on the Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington drama Flight.

Based on the Liv Constantine novel, the story follows a con artist (Lopez) who targets a wealthy couple — the Parrishes — as her next victims. She infiltrates the pair by befriending the wife and seducing the husband, with the master plan of becoming the next Mrs. Parrish, only to discover that the wife’s life is far more complicated than she could have imagined.

The novel was a Reese Witherspoon’s book club pick, has sold more than a million copies and been published in about three dozen countries. +