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In crafting the script. Coogler researched hoodoo culture and the histories of blues legends like Robert Johnson. “When you think about the vampire as it exists, it’s got an association and a counterpart in almost every culture,” the filmmaker said. “It is the supernatural creature that's most associated with seduction (and) with choice. It's something that's very present. And, you know, blues music is often called the devil's music. The film is in conversation with all of those things.”
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Ryan Coogler mixes blues and hoodoo for 'Sinners,' his 'fresh' vampire horror tale
Ryan Coogler dips into horror for the first time and debuts a new trailer for \www.usatoday.com
So what has Michael B. Jordan been up to? For one thing: reteaming with his most frequent collaborator and one of Hollywood’s most exciting new-school auteurs, the writer-director Ryan Coogler. Their latest is Sinners, due later this spring—a genre film that takes a lot of big swings and connects on most of them, and a unique showcase for Jordan the actor. But instead of mapping out where he’ll vacation after the promo tour, Jordan is thinking about 2026. He’s already deep in preproduction on his next project, a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, which he will direct as well as star in. Our brunch at Granville is sandwiched between two important Thomas Crown meetings.
Jordan plays both brothers, holding the film together with two commanding yet distinct performances. Smoke is a somewhat classic MBJ type—taciturn, capable, determined—while Stack is slick, gregarious, quick-witted, a charmer prone to ball-busting and defusing tense situations with a wisecrack. The role(s), Coogler suggests, represent Jordan’s first time—in a Coogler film, at least—playing a character who’s already come of age. “These are fully-formed men,” the director says. “Like they are who they’re gonna be, you know what I’m saying? But also Mike has a maturity to him now, [more] than he ever has on a movie before.”
https://www.gq.com/story/michael-b-j...m_content=nullAlthough it’s been shrewdly marketed as a genre film, Sinners is also a statement about how Black culture in America flourishes even under constant threat from predators seeking to disrupt and subsume it. It’s fun and entertaining, yes, and often quite brutal, but also unexpectedly poignant. Coogler screened the film for me, Jordan, a few members of his team, and some Warner Bros. execs the Friday evening before we met; the next day Jordan admitted to getting a “little choked up,” even though this wasn’t his first time watching it in its entirety. (He opted to sit a couple of rows ahead of me, so I can neither confirm nor deny.)
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