Lopez Reportedly Looking to Produce Jenni Rivera Biopic

“Jenny from the Block” could be bringing another Jenni’s story to the big screen…

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly looking to produce a biopic about the late Jenni Rivera through her production company Nuyorican Productions, according to TV y Novelas.

Jennifer Lopez

The 43-year-old Puerto Rican singer/actress is looking to buy the rights to move forward to developing the biopic on la Diva de la Banda, who passed away in a plane crash in Northern Mexico last December.

Lopez has even taken the initiative and reached out to Rivera’s sister, Rosie, whom Rivera left in charge of her estate, finances and children, according to the publication.

“I didn’t know her personally but I knew of her,” said Lopez after news of Rivera’s death broke. “For me, just being on tour right now, you live the same type of life. You know what I mean? It’s traveling, it’s doing shows.”

Jenni Rivera

“…I’m sure she was rushing to get home to her kids at that time so she took the flight at 3 in the morning. So you go like, wow, it’s just like a wake-up call for everybody. It’s tragic. She was so young, so young, and she had five kids. It just wasn’t her time, it feels like.”

TV Y Novelas reported that Lopez admires that the Mexican-American banda and ranchera singer had thick skin and a never-give-up attitude toward the obstacles she faced in life.

“Jennifer (Lopez) knows that she (Rivera) was very strong, a warrior,” said the source. “Just like the movie of Selena Quintanilla was a success for her career, she feels that Jenni deserves a movie with all the Hollywood glitz and glam.”

In the meantime, Rivera’s fans will have the chance to see the last images of their idol on mun2. The cable network has announced that the third season of her hit series I Love Jenni, which includes footage shot a month before her passing, will premiere in April.

“This Was The Way Jenni Had To Go,” Says Rivera’s Brother

While crews continue the search for Jenni Rivera‘s remains amid the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in the remote, mountainous area in northern Mexico on Sunday, her family members are expressing their overwhelming grief over the loss of a loved one.

“We are feeling devastated. It’s a devastation to the family,” the brother of the Mexican American singer, Pedro Rivera Jr., told E! News outside the Rivera family’s Lakewood, California home.

Jenni Rivera

Despite their sadness, Rivera’s father, Pedro Rivera Sr. told Telemundo and NBC News that the family is grateful for the support La Diva de la Banda’s fans have demonstrated throughout the years.

“We were having a beautiful morning, and then we received the news from my brother [Gustavo]. ‘Go see mom because we can’t find Jenni’s plane, we don’t know what’s happened to her,'” said Rivera’s brother recalling the nightmare of Sunday.

Pedro Jr. continued, “That’s when it started, really early at 9 in the morning. I came to my mom’s house. We started getting the news. Then at around 5 p.m., we got confirmation that she was gone. It was so painful.”

The family, which will be joined soon by brother Lupillo, who was reportedly in North Carolina, is still awaiting further details on what happened, Pedro Jr. said.

Collecting evidence at the scene could take up to 10 days, according to aviation authorities in Mexico. The wreckage, which includes personal items that belonged to the singer, was spread out over an area that spans up to 300 meters, officials said.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that it was dispatching a team to help with the investigation.

The Learjet carrying Rivera and six others lost contact with air traffic controllers after it took off for Toluca, outside Mexico City, from Monterrey at 3:15 a.m. Sunday. Mexican authorities confirmed that evening that wreckage had been found in Nuevo Leon state with no survivors.

“When we do find out what has happened with the body, because they have to get it out of the woods there,” said Pedro Jr. “As soon as they get the bodies out and we receive the news that they’re there, all the family is going to fly over there and bring our sister back.”

Pedro Jr., a Senior Pastor at Iglesia Primer Amor in Rivera’s home town of Long Beach, California, then went on to say, “We may be sad, but when God has the last word for all of us in our last days, it’s time to go. And this was the way Jenni had to go.”