Is Sinners based on a true story?
By TOI Desk Report
April 18, 2025
Update on : April 18, 2025
Sinners, a 2025 American period supernatural horror film directed by Ryan Coogler, isn’t based on either real-life incidents or preexisting properties.
Ryan Coogler, the director of Fruitvale Station and Black Panther movies, has also written and produced The Sinners.
Sinners marks the first time Ryan Coogler and the first instalment in the Creed franchise.
As twin brothers, Michael B Jordan plays both roles in the film. When they return home, they face a greater evil.
There is also a cast that includes Miles Caton, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Li Jun Li.
Sinners, the first original blockbuster, is a Rollicking, Razor-Sharp Racial Commentary in the Tradition of Jordan Peele.
Midway comes a scene on the dance floor of a juke joint newly opened by twin gangsters-turned-entrepreneurs through Sinners.
By January 2024, Director Coogler started emerging the genre film through Proximity Media, his production company, when Jordan was cast.
Distribution rights were acquired by Pictures the following month, and casting for additional roles began in April, ahead of filming that month. The process of filming wrapped in July 2024.
The production company scheduled the release of Sinners in the US on April 18, 2025.
The film was originally set for release on March 7, 2025, but was moved to April to allow for additional time in post-production due to a scarcity of film stock labs for the project, which relied largely on film cameras.
Along with a standard digital release, the film will also receive 10 IMAX 70mm prints