Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: What We Know So Far

Ryan Coogler is back, people—and this time, he brought some friends along with him. According to the new trailer for his upcoming film, Sinners, “Dance with the devil…and he’ll follow you home.” The thriller stars Michael B. Jordan with an original script written by Coogler. In a surprising move for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director, it looks scary as all hell.

Jordan stars in a dual role for Sinners, which is set in the 1930s Jim Crow-era South. He’ll play twin brothers who return home, “only to discover that there is a greater evil waiting to welcome them back.” Very cryptic. “I’ve been all over this world. I’ve seen men die in ways I ain’t even know was possible,” one of Jordan’s characters says in the first trailer. “Of all the things that I’ve seen, I ain’t ever seen no demons, no ghosts, no magic…til now.” According to Entertainment Weekly, early reports described the film as a vampire movie.

Who Else Is in the Cast?

Sinners marks Jordan and Coogler’s fifth film together, following Fruitvale Station, Creed, and two Black Panther films. Jordan stars alongside Delroy Lindo (The Harder They Fall), Hailee Steinfeld (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), Jack O’Connell (Ferrari), Omar Benson Miller (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country), Jayme Lawson (The Batman), Li Jun Li (Babylon), and Lola Kirke (Winning Time). Ludwig Göransson is an executive producer on the film, after working with Coogler on the music for Black Panther and recently winning his second Academy Award for Oppenheimer‘s score.

When Will Sinners Premiere in Theaters?

Sinners is set to open in theaters on March 7, 2025. Warner Bros. won the rights to the film after a highly competitive bidding war earlier this year. The film will mark Coogler’s return to the director’s chair after the emotional release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which honored the late actor Chadwick Boseman.

“It’s very difficult because you’re exhausted and emotionally spent, and I’m trying to give it all my full attention…But I think it’s going to be some rest and family time,” Coogler told Variety in November 2022. “I don’t know if there’s such thing as, you can go away, take enough time, and come back and it’s OK—you don’t miss your friend no more. You know what I mean? I don’t know that that’s how it works. It’s an ongoing process.”

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