Lionsgate has acquired “ She Rides Shotgun ,” an upcoming action crime thriller starring Taron Egerton, from Fifth Season. The studio will give the film a limited theatrical release on Aug. 1.

Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang and John Carroll Lynch also star. The film is directed by Nick Rowland from a screenplay written by Jordan Harper, Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, based on Harper’s novel “She Rides Shotgun.”

The gritty, explosive action-thriller stars Egerton as newly released ex-con Nate. Marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly (Heger) at all costs. Shy, precocious and wary of her father, Polly is swept up in Nate’s dangerous plight as they flee to evade the corrupt sheriff and brutal leader of a gang who will stop at

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