By Brande Victorian· Updated September 19, 2022
It’s been years since John Boyega first heard the concept of a movie like The Woman King, which hit theaters this past weekend. “Loads of people,” he says, were chasing the idea of making a film about the all-female military regime of the Dahomey Kingdom known as the Agojie, but only he received notes from Gina Prince-Bythewood and Viola Davis requesting him to