Michael B. Jordan Plays Twins Defending Their Hometown Against Invading Vampires inSinnersTrailer

Mar. 15, 2025

DirectorRyan Coogleris bringing twice as muchMichael B. Jordanstar power to their intense new thriller.

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, Warner Bros. debuted a new trailer forSinners, in which Jordan, 37, has dual roles as twins.Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Wunmi Mosaku, Omar Miller, Jayme Lawson and Jack O’Connell also round out the cast.

Teases a synopsis, “Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.”

Sinnersmarks director Coogler’s first movie since 2022’sBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreverand another collaboration between Coogler and Jordan, afterFruitvale Station,Creedand the 2018 originalBlack Panther.

During a Jan. 27 virtual press conference, Coogler, 38, acknowledged that he and Jordan have developed a personal friendship and relationship similar toMartin Scorsese’s frequent work with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.

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“All of my favorite filmmakers have those relationships, and its makes it easier, man. It’s hard to make a movie, bro,” Coogler said. “It’s hard to lead a film, to be an actor in these films, and when you have somebody who it clicks with and somebody who understands you, who gets you, and somebody who it doesn’t feel like work all the time. And thenwhat we went through with losing Chadwick, man, it made us both, I think, appreciate each other even more.”

“The seed of it started with that relationship with my uncle. He would listen to blues music all the time. He would only talk about Mississippi when he was listening to that music,” Coogler said. “He had a profound effect on my life, and I got a chance to kind of dig into my own ancestral history with this film. It’s been extremely rewarding.”

Michael B. Jordan in Sinners.Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

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Coogler also cited stories likeStephen King’s 1975 novelSalem’s Lotand a 1962 episode ofThe Twilight Zonetitled “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” as major inspirations forSinners.

Sinnersis in theaters April 18.

source: people.com