Nia Long to produce and star in Netflix's 'Fatal Affair'; Netflix's 'Lionheart' become Nigeria's first-ever Oscar entry

NetflixNia Long is getting behind the camera for her next project.

Deadline has learned that Long will star in and produce the upcoming Netflix film Fatal Affair.

The film, which will be the actress’s first producing project, will also star Stephen Bishop and Omar Epps, who co-starred with Long in the 1999 crime thriller In Too Deep.

Fatal Affair follows a woman who tries to fix her marriage after a brief fling with an old friend, only to learn he’s  “more dangerous and unstable than she’d realized.”

In other news, Netflix has decided to enter Genevieve Nnaji‘s Lionheart for Oscar consideration for Best International Feature Film.

According to Screen Daily, the film, directed and starring Nnaji, will