Overview
- Speaking at Deadline Contenders Film in Los Angeles, Coogler said the 2001 Disney Channel movie introduced him to parallels between Irish folk music and Black music that informed Sinners.
- He said the influence helped define Jack O’Connell’s vampire antagonist, Remmick, whom he conceived as a pre-colonial Irishman rather than a satanic figure.
- Sinners centers on twin brothers Stack and Smoke, played by Michael B. Jordan, who open a juke joint in their 1932 Mississippi hometown that becomes the creature’s hunting ground.
- Coogler praised O’Connell’s “beautiful performance,” noting the actor brought memories of his father to the role as the director drew on his own family.
- He said his next movie is Black Panther 3 and that the team is working on it, with trade reporting suggesting a tentative February 2028 release and early-2027 production that has not been officially announced.