Sev Ohanian on Producing “Sinners”, Working With Ryan Coogler, and How He Got His Start in Hollywood 🎬
Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler, is a genre-blending vampire thriller mashup set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta that mixes Southern Gothic horror, blues music, Irish folk music, and historical drama. The story follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack — both played by Michael B. Jordan (possibly for budgetary reasons) who return home hoping to […]
How Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Led to A Warner Bros Deal
In an industry where screenwriters are often treated as disposable cogs in the filmmaking wheel—hired to execute someone else’s vision, rewrite drafts they no longer control, or watch their work be filtered or redirected through a web of studios and producers—ownership of the work writers create is a revolutionary concept in Hollywood.  This is in […]
“Sinners” Is Ryan Coogler’s Bluesy Love Letter To Horror Films
You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther, Fruitvale Station) returns with an elevated period supernatural horror film about a pair of WWI veteran and Chicago gangland twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordon) who leave their messy lives and unresolved […]
