Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan‘s fifth collaboration has been shrouded in secrecy since it was announced in January. Now eager film fans are getting their first look at “Sinners” — and all its bloody goodness. The film opens March 7, 2025 from Warner Bros.
The highly-anticipated horror thriller is based on an original script by Coogler, with the project set in the 1930s Jim Crow era-South and filmed earlier this year in the New Orleans area. But beyond those basic details, everything about the project — from the title to its plot — had been kept under wraps. Then, on Monday, the supernatural thriller was announced to be titled “Sinners.” Later, Jordan shared the film’s poster (a closeup shot of the actor in two different costumes, confirming rumors that he’s playing a dual role) on social media, with the caption, “Dance with the devil…and he’ll follow you home.”
The film’s official description sets the scene: “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 cast is full of heavy hitters, toplined by Jordan, Delroy Lindo (“Da 5 Bloods,” “UnPrisoned”), Jack O’Connell (“Ferrari,” “Back to Black”) and Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit,” “Dickinson,” Sony’s animated “Spider-Verse” franchise). Wunmi Mosaku (“Loki,” “Lovecraft Country”), Jayme Lawson (“The Woman King,” “MLK/X”), Omar Benson Miller (“The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”), Li Jun Li (“Babylon”), Lola Kirke (“Gone Girl,” “Winning Time”), plus newcomers Yao, Miles Caton and Peter Dreimanis round out the ensemble.
Coogler directed the film — his first time behind the camera since 2022’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — and produced the project via his Proximity Media banner, along with Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian. Executive producers are Proximity’s Ludwig Göransson (fresh off his second Oscar win after composing the score for “Oppenheimer”) and Rebecca Cho, as well as Will Greenfield. “Black Panther” franchise collaborators — director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Oscar-winning production designer Hannah Beachler, editor Michael P. Shawver and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter — also return. Casting director Francine Maisler, who worked with Coogler and co. on “Creed,” returns to head that department.
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