Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star as a couple whose destination wedding turns deadly in the action-comedy Shotgun Wedding, streaming today on Lionsgate Play via PLDT Home and Smart.
The film follows Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Duhamel), whose dream wedding in the Philippines is thrown into chaos when armed pirates storm the celebration. Forced to put aside their differences, the couple must protect their families and fight to survive.
Directed by Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect), the film features Jennifer Coolidge, Lenny Kravitz, and D’Arcy Carden in supporting roles.
Although set in the Philippines, Shotgun Wedding was filmed in the Dominican Republic due to COVID-19 restrictions. Moore told cinemadailyus.com that the production adjusted the architecture, colors, and fabrics on set to reflect Filipino culture.
Lopez, in an interview with freshfiction.tv, described how her character’s elaborate wedding dress symbolized her journey in the film. “It was the biggest, most cumbersome, beautiful, but not her at all. Pieces started coming off, and by the end, she’s this badass… with a gun saying, ‘Everybody listens to me,’” she said.