892 (film)
892 is a 2022 American thriller drama film written and directed by Abi Damaris Corbin and co-written by Kwame Kwei-Armah. The film stars John Boyega, Michael K. Williams, Nicole Beharie and Connie Britton. Plot. Based on the real life story of the late Brian Brown-Easley, a former Marine Corps veteran in financial troubles, is concerned over the effects on his daughter alongside the prospects of homelessness to the point of robbing a Wells Fargo Bank with a bomb threat in 2017. Production. On March 2, 2021, it was announced that Jonathan Majors will play a  Marine war veteran who suffers from mental scars, and his hard transition back to civilian life. On July 8, 2021, it was reported that John Boyega replaced Majors due to a scheduling conflict with "". On August 30, 2021, it was confirmed that Connie Britton joined the cast. Principal photography began on July 6, 2021, and was scheduled to conclude on August 16, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. Release and reception. It premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2022, where the cast won the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. On February  1, 2022, Bleecker Street acquired the film's US distribution rights. "Deadline" said, "Corbin is firmly in control behind the camera and with particular expert help with her editor Chris Witt. The British actor Boyega is superb in every aspect of the role, as is the commanding presence of the late Williams in what sadly is his final film role." "Variety" said, "This is not an act of documentary reenactment so much as a tense, speculative drama, imagining what this man must have gone through during those hours, and how his actions rippled out to affect others’ lives." 892 (film