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Breaking is a 2021 American thriller drama film starring John Boyega as a Marine Corps veteran, Brian Brown-Easley, who is in financial trouble and robs a bank. It is written and directed by Abi Damaris Corbin and co-written by Kwame Kwei-Armah, based on the true story of Brown-Easley, detailed in the 2018 Task & Purpose article "They Didn't Have to Kill Him" by Aaron Gell.
On the morning of July 13, 2017, Brian Brown-Easley walked into a Wells Fargo Bank in Marietta, Georgia. He said his backpack contained C-4 explosive and, after asking customers and a handful of ...
John Boyega stars as Brian Brown-Easley in Abi Damaris Corbin's "892," which tells the story of a desperate ex-Marine who holds up a bank to get what he's owed.
Here’s the thing about bank robbery movies: No one ever roots for the bank. The tellers rarely seem like real people; the institutions don’t need the money; the insurance companies take the hit.
John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionally as John Boyega, is a British actor and producer.He first rose to prominence in Britain for his role as a teenage gang leader in the comedy horror film Attack the Block (2011), and had his international breakthrough playing Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and ...
John Boyega – Breaking as Lance Corporal Brian Brown-Easley; Sterling K. Brown – Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. as Lee-Curtis Childs; Daniel Kaluuya – Nope as Otis "OJ" Haywood Jr. Jonathan Majors – Devotion as Jesse L. Brown; Danielle Deadwyler – Till as Mamie Till-Mobley. Viola Davis – The Woman King as General Nanisca; Anna Diop ...
Boyega stars as Brian Brown Easley, a former Marine who took bank tellers hostage and threatened to blow up the building due to frustrations over withheld veterans disability payments.
Does the subject of this film, veteran Brian Brown-Easley, merit his own page now? Looking at Notability in the English Wikipedia, "The motivation for the crime or the execution of the crime is unusual" seems to apply now that there has been a movie made. His crime is unusual - he held bank employees hostage but did not demand money from the bank.