{"id":303,"date":"2019-01-04T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999931660"},"modified":"2019-01-04T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:00:55","slug":"brian-banks-movie-headed-to-theaters-summer-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/brian-banks-movie-headed-to-theaters-summer-2019","title":{"rendered":"Brian Banks movie headed to theaters summer 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Brian Banks, a former Poly High School football star whose plans to play in the NFL\u00a0were derailed by a wrongful rape conviction at age 17, will be in theaters this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The film is scheduled to be released Aug. 9, 2019. It stars Aldis Hodge (&#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221; and &#8220;Hidden Figures&#8221;) in the title role, as well as Greg Kinnear, who plays his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The film premiered in September at the Los Angeles Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brian Banks Clip - The Truth Matters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/niioAq33v8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opposite of a #MeToo movie, Brian Banks is definitely swimming against the current,\u201d The Hollywood Reporter noted in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/review\/brian-banks-review-1147182\">review of the film<\/a>. \u201c[&#8230;] if the film contributes to ongoing and necessary dialogue about sexual misconduct, it will have served its purpose,\u201d the review went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Banks pleaded no contest to rape in 2002 after being falsely accused by his classmate. He was a junior in high school and had already committed to playing for USC.<\/p>\n<p>The now 33-year-old was imprisoned for more than five years with a five-year parole during which he was ordered to wear a GPS tracking device.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I literally just jumped out of my seat !!! THANK YOU \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CPq2CHontw\">https:\/\/t.co\/CPq2CHontw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; b r i a n   b a n k s (@BrianBanksFREE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianBanksFREE\/status\/1045778031497728000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Four years into his parole sentence, he was able to prove his innocence when he recorded his accuser admitting to lying about the rape. She had reached out to help to make amends.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, his conviction was overturned with the help of the California Innocence Project.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he signed with the Atlanta Falcons, a contract that lasted only a few months and saw him playing a handful of pre-season games.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/brian-banks-speaks-about-his-wrongful-conviction-and-exoneration-at-long-beach-event-3\/<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Banks has been outspoken about his experience and advocates for others who are wrongfully convicted\u2014whether on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CA_Innocence\/status\/1047205619210575872\">social media<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/brian-banks-speaks-about-his-wrongful-conviction-and-exoneration-at-long-beach-event-3\/\"> at speaking events<\/a>. In January of this year, Banks teamed with a former prosecutor for a new mini-series that helps wrongfully convicted individuals called \u201cFinal Appeal\u201d on the Oxygen cable channel. In November, Banks announced that he signed a book deal with Atria Publishing Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Brian Banks, a former Poly High School football star whose plans to play professionally were derailed by a wrongful rape conviction at age 17, will be in theaters next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":65830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[198],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-brian-banks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}