Ryan Coogler talks reinventing vampire movies with ‘Sinners’
Ryan Coogler discussed the making of his latest film 'Sinners', which is being flooded with excellent reviews
American filmmaker Ryan Coogler sat down for an interview with Variety to discuss the making of his latest film Sinners, which is being flooded with excellent reviews.
“Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back,” reads the synopsis of the flick, which stars Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and more.
About the story in the film, producer Zinzi Coogler said, “Everything we do at Proximity is in the hopes of telling stories about people and communities — stories that are often overlooked — and we try to put them on the biggest platform and the biggest scale possible. On the surface, a story set in 1932 Mississippi Delta might feel small, but so much has come out of that place. Blues has shaped global pop culture as we know it today. It’s an often-overlooked piece of our history that we hope will no longer be.”
Coogler adds, “We’ve always been, as a company, drawn to projects that don’t seem easy to make — not necessarily technically, but rather pushing the envelope when it comes to storytelling. ‘Sinners’ was the same goal: give the audience something they haven’t seen before.”
“This film is very much me,” the filmmaker remarks. “I love anything supernatural. I’m in. I like stories about communities, about neighborhoods, about archetypes. And I love period anything. So, when you layer those things together, that does it for me.”
