Source: Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate has acquired North American and U.K. distribution rights to the thriller SLOW BURN, written and directed by Wayne Beach and produced by Fisher Stevens, Sidney Kimmel and Bonnie Timmermann.

The big-city suspense thriller marks Beach's directorial debut, and it stars Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Jolene Blalock, Taye Diggs and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

The film's multicultural perspective on modern-day urban politics centers on an ambitious district attorney (Liotta) who finds himself in a bad situation when his assistant district attorney (Blalock) confesses to killing a man in self-defense. Her story is contradicted by a stranger named Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) and becomes further complicated by record store clerk (Phifer) and a gang lord.