The first trailer for Netflix’s Atlas turns Jennifer Lopez into a mech pilot

/ Netflix’s Atlas from director Brad Peyton pits humanity against killer mechs in its explosive first trailer.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

It’s been a while since we had a really satisfying live-action feature focused on people piloting futuristic robots, but the first trailer for Netflix’s Atlas from director Brad Peyton makes it seem like it could be the mech genre’s next big splash.

Set in a wild future where humanity’s begun using massive AI-powered robots to wage war, Atlas tells the story of

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