{"id":132084,"date":"2019-04-24T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=132084"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:00:08","slug":"official-trailer-teaser-poster-for-brian-banks-starring-aldis-hodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/official-trailer-teaser-poster-for-brian-banks-starring-aldis-hodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Trailer & Teaser Poster For Brian Banks Starring Aldis Hodge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bleecker Street has released the official trailer and teaser poster for\u00a0Brian Banks<\/strong>, the true story about an All-American football player who went to prison for a crime he did not commit. Directed by Tom Shadyac<\/strong>, the pic premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it picked up the Audience Award. It will hits theaters August 9, 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Written by Doug Atchison<\/strong>, who wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Akeelah and the Bee<\/strong>, the film stars\u00a0Aldis Hodge<\/strong> (Underground) in the title role.<\/p>\n

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The cast also includes\u00a0Greg Kinnear, Sherri Shepherd, Melanie Liburd,<\/strong> Dorian Missick,\u00a0Xosha Roquemore, Tiffany Dupont<\/strong>, and\u00a0football player turned actor Matt Battaglia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis\u00a0Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn\u2019t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing in the NFL.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Producing the film were Monica Levinson<\/strong> and Shivani Rawat<\/strong>\u2019s ShivHans Pictures and Amy Baer<\/strong>\u2019s Gidden Media.\u00a0Derrick Tseng and Tirrell D. Whittley<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>are executive producers.<\/p>\n