A recent rumor suggested the title of Black Panther director Ryan Coogler’s secret vampire movie, starring Michael B. Jordan (who played Killmonger). Warner Bros. has now confirmed the film is called Sinners.
We got a short teaser, but it doesn’t show any scenes from the movie. The full trailer will be online sometime tomorrow. Here’s the logline, which reveals that Michael B. Jordan will play twin brothers.
“Wanting to escape their difficult lives, twin brothers (played by Jordan) come back to their hometown to begin anew, but they find that a much bigger danger is waiting for them.”
Take a look at the teaser using the link below.
When we first heard about this project, it was so secret that “executives and buyers had to visit the Beverly Hills offices of WME, the agency that represents Coogler and Jordan, just to see the script.” However, some details have leaked out since then.
At first, the film was called a “genre feature” with a “period element to the story.” We later learned that it will be set in the Jim Crow-era South and might include both vampires and Southern supernatural traditions.
Hailee Steinfeld (known for Hawkeye and Edge of Seventeen) recently joined the cast in a secret role. She will be alongside previously announced actors Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, and Jack O’Connell.
Mosaku is expected to play Jordan’s love interest (which twin this will be is still unknown), while O’Connell is believed to play a “racist antagonist.” Coogler wrote the script and will be the lead producer, along with Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian.
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Coogler’s last movie was Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, where Jordan returned as Erik Killmonger for a cameo in the afterlife.
The last update we got said that the director was working on a third Black Panther film, but there hasn’t been any official news. Coogler is also involved in at least one planned Black Panther spin-off series and has been rumored as a possible director for Avengers: Secret Wars.
Additionally, he is set to lead a reboot of The X-Files for Disney-owned 20th Century Studios, so he will be swamped in the coming years.
Source: Deadline