Robert Zemeckis and Jennifer Lopez Clashing Over Final Cut of Netflix’s $100M-Costing ‘The Last Mrs. Parrish’

What the hell is going on over at Netflix? We've already seen reports of behind-the-scenes drama around Greta Gerwig's, David Fincher's and Ben Affleck's latest films, and now it's Robert Zemeckis?

Here's a story from Page Six Hollywood involving Jennifer Lopez, who is reportedly clashing with Robert Zemeckis over the cut of "The Last Mrs. Parrish," Netflix's $100M adaptation of Liv Constantine's bestselling thriller.

According to multiple sources, the film has been testing poorly, and Lopez, who is also a producer, has decided to involve herself in the editing room. One source didn't hold back: "She's tried to take it over. She fancies herself a filmmaker." LOL.

Another source said everyone behind the scenes is calling it a Blake Lively situation, a reference to the "It Ends With Us" cut war that eventually spiraled into the Lively-Baldoni legal mess.

Netflix's official statement? The film "tested well, particularly with fans of Jennifer." A joint statement from Netflix, Lopez and Zemeckis went further, calling the reporting "categorically false" and insisting that Lopez and Zemeckis are working in unison.

Zemeckis has fallen hard in recent years. He hasn't had a genuine critical or commercial win in a long time. "Welcome to Marwen," "The Witches," "Pinocchio" and "Here" all came and went, and "Here" in particular was a box-office bomb despite reuniting him with Tom Hanks. Yet Netflix somehow thought it was a good idea to give Zemeckis $100M for a Jennifer Lopez movie, and now it's in post-production hell.

The cast also includes Isabel May as a con artist targeting a wealthy couple, played by Lopez and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Cameras started rolling in September 2025, and now we know why the film has been delayed for well over a year. The claim is that it isn’t expected until sometime in 2027 — if Zemeckis and Lopez can somehow salvage a cut they agree upon.

By the way, new content chief Peter Rice started just this week, replacing the ousted Bela Bajaria, and film head Dan Lin is gone too. We'll see whose side he takes here, Lopez's or Zemeckis, and which cut ends up on the platform, because, of course, I highly doubt Netflix sees this film as a theatrical event.