To celebrate the release of Breaking, the new acclaimed drama/thriller released this week, we sat down with the film’s star/producer and director to find out more.
Living in a cheap motel in Atlanta and separated from his wife and child, former U.S. Marine veteran Brian Easley (John Boyega) is desperate. Driven to the brink by forces beyond his control, the soft-spoken, kind man decides to go into a bank and hold hostages with a bomb. As police, media, and family members descend on the bank and Brian, it becomes clear he’s not after money – he wants to tell his story and have what is rightfully his, even if it costs him his life.
Chatting to Boeyga, he tells about the lure of the project, both as a performer and as a producer, the power of Brian’s story and why the stories of veterans returning...
Living in a cheap motel in Atlanta and separated from his wife and child, former U.S. Marine veteran Brian Easley (John Boyega) is desperate. Driven to the brink by forces beyond his control, the soft-spoken, kind man decides to go into a bank and hold hostages with a bomb. As police, media, and family members descend on the bank and Brian, it becomes clear he’s not after money – he wants to tell his story and have what is rightfully his, even if it costs him his life.
Chatting to Boeyga, he tells about the lure of the project, both as a performer and as a producer, the power of Brian’s story and why the stories of veterans returning...
- 3/24/2023
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bank robberies are a staple of cinema. They usually go two ways. There’s the secretive, carefully planned out break-ins like in Rifiki or Ocean’s 11, or there’s the all-guns-blazing approach of Heat and Point Break. But when Brian Easley walked into Wells Fargo Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2017, he took neither approach. An exceptionally mild-mannered man, he held up the bank with a homemade bomb in order to ransom the Veteran Affairs association for unpaid disability benefits. Honouring this story with a mixture of empathy and grace, as well as considerable dramatic flair, Abi Damaris Corbin’s Sundance Special Jury: Ensemble Cast award winning feature Breaking splits the difference between the two genres, providing a modern update of Dog Day Afternoon that incisively indicts a broken system. Ahead of the film’s digital release on March 27th, we talked to Corbin about working with both John Boyega and...
- 3/24/2023
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
Brian Brown-Easley, played by John Boyega, is not a very good bank robber. He isn’t trying to be. If anything, he goes out of his way not to seem like too much of a threat. When he hops over a desk and inadvertently frightens a kind bank teller, Rosa (Selenis Leyva), he apologizes. After scribbling down a note about having a bomb, he swiftly moves to allow every customer in the place to leave. Calls come in from frustrated bank customers and he takes down notes for the employees...
- 8/28/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
John Boyega stars as a Marine veteran in “Breaking,” a dramatic thriller that documents the injustices felt by service members once they’ve returned to civilian life.
Based on the real life of Brian Brown-Easley, a former lance corporal in the Marine Corps, much of the plot follows a 2018 article written by Aaron Gell. After separating from the service with an honorable discharge in 2005, Brian returns home to Georgia, plagued by mental health challenges. When his disability check from the Va did not arrive in 2017, he turned to a dangerous solution to his financial trouble.
If you’re wondering when and how to watch “Breaking,” we’ve got you covered.
Is “Breaking” in Theaters or Streaming?
“Breaking” will open exclusively in theaters nationwide Friday, Aug. 26. A streaming release date or platform have not been announced, so as of right now the only way to see the film in in a movie theater.
Based on the real life of Brian Brown-Easley, a former lance corporal in the Marine Corps, much of the plot follows a 2018 article written by Aaron Gell. After separating from the service with an honorable discharge in 2005, Brian returns home to Georgia, plagued by mental health challenges. When his disability check from the Va did not arrive in 2017, he turned to a dangerous solution to his financial trouble.
If you’re wondering when and how to watch “Breaking,” we’ve got you covered.
Is “Breaking” in Theaters or Streaming?
“Breaking” will open exclusively in theaters nationwide Friday, Aug. 26. A streaming release date or platform have not been announced, so as of right now the only way to see the film in in a movie theater.
- 8/26/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
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