EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is in development on Slow Burn, a globetrotting romantic comedy, to be penned by Andrew Lopez.The film will be based on a real-life love story writer Sean Lewis told about his family on “Isn’t It Slow-Mantic”—an episode of NPR’s beloved podcast, This American Life.
It will span both continents and time to tell the story of a couple that loses contact with each other, after an initial whirlwind encounter, while being pulled in different directions by duty, family, culture, as well as themselves.
When their paths cross again, will they be able to overcome all of the challenges that kept them apart the first time?Bryan Haas is producing via Chasing Epic Pictures, with Lewis exec producing.Lopez is a Filipino and
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