The film will storm theaters on August 4, bringing a long and hot summer to one grueling close.
It’s a tableau with which anyone who watches the news is all too familiar: police station, pair of white interrogators, terrified-looking black man.
Boyega portrays Melvin Dismukes, a security guard keeping watch across the street from Detroit’s Algiers Motel on the night of July 25, 1967.
It’s a tense scene bordering on the sickening, and the trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s supercharged period piece Detroit only gets more brutal from there.