Academy Award-winning director Bill Condon returns to the musical stage with Kiss of the Spider Woman, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show and Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel. Jennifer Lopez stars as Ingrid Luna, a glamorous screen siren and the titular Spider Woman, Diego Luna portrays Valentin Arregui, a Marxist revolutionary, while Tonatiuh Elizarraraz takes on the role of Luis Molina, a gay hairdresser imprisoned during Argentina’s Dirty War. Together, they weave a tale of fantasy and resilience within the confines of a repressive South American prison.
The film made its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation that left Lopez in tears. Kiss of the Spider Woman is set for a nationwide theatrical release in the United States on October 10, 2025.
Here is the synopsis: Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon returns to the movie musical in this dazzling Technicolor-hued fantasy. Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez). Based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical hit.
Reflecting on the film’s themes, actress Jennifer Lopez said, “[This film is about] the importance of love and just seeing each other as human beings, and how love can shorten the gap of any divide between people.”
She continued, “If we could just look at each other, like [Bill] was saying, as individuals, as people, as human beings, and not worry about who you like, who you don’t like, what your political beliefs are — it doesn’t matter! There’s another human on the other side of you and you will find something in common with them, and it’s that you are both human and you both have a heart. That to me is something that was so important when I read the movie and why I wanted to be part of it.”
Watch the teaser trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman