John Boyega and 892 Cast and Filmmakers on Why They Wanted to Tell Brian Brown-Easley’s Story

One of the many films to world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was director Abi Damaris Corbin’s 892. Based on the 2018 story by Aaron Gell entitled Did Brian Brown-Easley Have to Die? and written by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Damaris Corbin, 892 tells the story of marine war veteran Brian Brown-Easley (played by John Boyega) and what happened to make feel like he had no other options but to walk into a Wells Fargo Bank and say “I’ve got a bomb.” Since I know many of you will see this film, I won’t spoil more in this introduction, but you can read Maggie Lovitt’s review if you’d like to learn more now. 892 also stars Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, Jeffrey Donovan, Selenis Leyva, and Michael K. Williams (in his final film role). Producers for the film include Ashley Levinson, Salman Al-Rashid, Sam Frohman, Kevin Turen, and Mackenzie Fargo. Shortly after seeing the film, I got to speak with Abi Damaris Corbin, Kwame Kwei-Armah, John Boyega, Connie Britton, Nichole Behari