The much-awaited “Kiss of the Spider Woman” remake starring American actress Jennifer Lopez will make its debut at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Projects from Lopez, Benedict Cumberbatch, A$AP Rocky, and Olivia Colman, among many others, will be represented in the Sundance Institute’s Park City, Utah festival, which was announced on Wednesday.
Along with Matt Damon and other producers, Lopez’s ex-husband Ben Affleck produced “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” It was originally made into a movie in 1985 and is based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 book of the same name. Alongside Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, and William Hurt, Hurt won the Oscar for best-supporting actor.
In 1993, “Spider Woman” was also made into a Broadway musical that won a Tony Award.
According to the festival release, Diego Luna and Lopez co-star in the drama’s version, which centres on a political prisoner who develops an unexpected bond with his cellmate, who then “recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favourite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.” Lopez plays the diva, of course.
The dramedy “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You,” which stars Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, and rapper A$AP Rocky and tells the story of a mother on Long Island overcoming difficulties, is also scheduled to have its global premiere at this year’s festival.
Other films with global premieres include “Jimpa,” starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow; “Train Dreams,” featuring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy; and “Rebuilding,” starring Josh O’Connor and Meghann Fahy, the breakthrough stars of “White Lotus.”
Among the popular documentaries that will be screened at the festival are “Sally,” which will cover obscure aspects of the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to launch into space, and “Sly Lives!” which will explore the legacy and life of the funk band Sly and the Family Stone.
The festival’s spotlight event will feature the premiere of “One to One: John & Yoko,” a documentary that explores the “seminal and transformative 18 months” that John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 1970s.
Next year, the Sundance Film Festival will be held in Park City, Utah, from January 23 to February 2.
