Ryan Coogler Talks ‘Sinners’ Secrets As He Unveils New Trailer

NFD NEWS
Jan 29
2 min read

While there’s plenty of reasons to be excited about going to the cinema in 2025, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners likely sits near to the top of many people’s lists. An original film from Coogler is something we haven’t seen in a long time given that he’s spent a significant portion of his career working with existing properties such as Black Panther and Creed. It’s a genre movie and it is reported to have cost around $90m whilst also sporting a 15 rating: premium cinema targeted at a more mature audience.

The film’s star, Michael B Jordan, will indeed be playing twin brothers while the rest of the cast is impressive too. Delroy Lindo, Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku and Jack O’Connell all co-star in the film, with O’Connell said to be playing a racist villain. There’s some brilliant talent there and it’s exciting to get another look at what Coogler has cooked up, even if it is a new snippet to advertise another new snippet which we imagine is coming soon.

Sinners isn’t too far away now, with that 7th March release date inching slowly closer. An interesting side-plot to this story will of course concern its performance at the box office. Warner Bros’ marketing team took some heavy flak from some quarters last year for failing to convert some of the studio’s biggest releases such as Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga or Joker: Folie à Deux into ticket sales. This year could represent a riskier slate for Warner Bros, so at least part of the focus will be on how Coogler’s movie kicks off the year for the studio.

Here’s the official synopsis and the new trailer follows below:

From Ryan Coogler—director of “Black Panther” and “Creed”—and starring Michael B. Jordan comes a new vision of fear: “Sinners.” Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

The Warner Bros. movie stars frequent Coogler collaborator Michael B. Jordan and hits theaters April 18. And while during the casting stage of the buzzy production many speculated it was a period vampire piece, the studio and Coogler camps strongly insinuated it was more than that.

At a virtual press conference for the movie’s trailer launch, Coogler, whose previous two outtings were the two Black Panther films for Marvel Studios, teased that although vampires were definitely in the film, the movie has a lot more going on.