Just two weeks before The Banker was scheduled to open in theaters, Apple is delaying the release following news of sexual assault allegations
was scheduled to open in theaters, Apple is delaying the release of the film following news ofwas scheduled to debut in limited theaters on Dec. 6 before premiering on Apple's newly launched Apple TV+ streaming service in January. As a result of the theatrical delay, the streaming release has also been pushed back. The delay comes as Apple tries to figure out next steps with the film after canceling's Nov. 20 report on misconduct allegations against Bernard Garrett Jr.
The film is based on the real life story of Garrett Jr.’s. father, Bernard Garrett Sr. and Joe Morris , two black man in Los Angeles who recruited a white man to front their growing real estate business some six decades ago in a pre-Civil Rights Act America. Garrett Jr.'s half-sisters, roughly 15 years his junior, have recently made Apple aware of their claim that when he was a young man living in their home, he sexually molested them over the course of a few years. The sisters made the claim in connection with separate allegations that the timeline of the film was tweaked in order to leave the girls and their mother out of the story and instead feature Bernard Garrett Sr.
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