I named the biggest one Vlad.
Movie News: Ryan Coogler & Michael B. Jordan - SINNERS - jim crow era vampire flick (SPOILERS OPEN!!!)
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I named the biggest one Vlad.
Man there was like 3 times I laughed out loud and no one else did…with that vs purebred river dancing that had me in tears I don’t even know if it’s suppose to be funny lol.
MAN let me tells ya…
Missed seeing it last thurs due to car problems but was able to switch tix to yesterday, this movie was damn near flawless.In truth I believe it is flawless.
I had heard how the music played a role in this but that opening scene in the juke joint was the most amazing scene both cinematic and artistic expression.
The fact that this was the guy who played Sammy first major role is PHENOMINAL!!!
I both loved and appreciated this movie!
Missed seeing it last thurs due to car problems but was able to switch tix to yesterday, this movie was damn near flawless.In truth I believe it is flawless.
I had heard how the music played a role in this but that opening scene in the juke joint was the most amazing scene both cinematic and artistic expression.
The fact that this was the guy who played Sammy first major role is PHENOMINAL!!!
I both loved and appreciated this movie!
Btw I don’t know if anyone spoke on it but the performance scene with Sammy gave me chills. Coogler just gets how to pay homage and inspire you. Shit was beautiful.
I saw it in IMAX last night, that's not 70 mm? If so, why was it so dark? I was wondering that throughout the whole movie
Which scene?
Yes. But it's on actual FILM
'Sinners' Is the First Movie to Be Simultaneously Shot on Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX
Hollywood filmmaker breaks down film formats, aspect ratios, and movie projection technology in a very education 10 minute Kodak video.
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The scene where Sammy performing and you see all these different cultures from different eras that were influenced by blues….for a minute I was like wtf is this movie doing….then it plays out…I want to see this scene again.
Yes. But it's on actual FILM
'Sinners' Is the First Movie to Be Simultaneously Shot on Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX
Hollywood filmmaker breaks down film formats, aspect ratios, and movie projection technology in a very education 10 minute Kodak video.petapixel.com
The closest Ultra panavision theater near me is in Columbus an hour and 39 minutes away. I might have to do this either today or tomorrow. Today depends on how long the married woman I'm fucking is going to stay
Why the vampires had different color eyes tho? Most were red. Cac was blue and Stacks was gold
One thing Coogler does well how in depth his villains are. Jonathan Majors character in Creed, Killmonger, Namor, this vampire…..you be forgetting who the good guy and bad guy was because yeah this vampire wasn’t shit….he still wasn’t the Klan the true villains in this movie they just was cowards.
There are a lot of black actors that are good but never get any chances. Two black dudes on last of us bodied the roles. One is really deaf. But they not getting any roles
I knew this would happen yo chillout dance black.lol
He told yall that trip he made to Africa changed his life. And u can see it in his work in wasnt just talk.
I wanted to see if he was going to do that kick, that high front kick they do for the Riverdance. The guy in the movie did it, but it was at such an angle that you saw a foot, you're just not sure the foot came from him. That might have been great film editing, because whenever you see someone playing the piano and you see just a hands and not them actually playing it You know that they're not actually playing it.
(**Edit** Jack O'Connell really did that jig. Wow)
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Yeah he’s a real grounded dude. It shows up in his work. Very consciously aware and calculated. It’s not by mistake.
I say this all the time, every black person should take that trip atleast once if they can.....Game changer..
In his interview with Sway (I think) he mentioned how the gang culture never really infiltrated Oakland because most folks live by the code of the Black Panthers....Makes even more sense why he creates movies the way he does...Always paying homage to the past....
Yeah thanks for posting this...I really want to know more about this actor and his perception of the character he played.
Yep. I can see that.
He was doing that shit for real. I thought at least the low kicking stuff was him but when he did the high kick I'm like there's no way he really did that shit. He did that shit.This the scene that had me cracking up he was hitting that shit though.
This. And he said he saw where all the tradition came from cause in Africa they are moving the same. I will find it and post the interview later. But u have fba ados clowns trying to fk everything up
Coogler just made him a millionaire
Sinners Star Delroy Lindo on What’s Going on With Blade, His Other Vampire Movie
By Derek Lawrence, a freelance writer who covers film and TV
One day Delroy Lindo received an unexpected text from Creed and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler: “Do you play piano?” Technically, the answer was no, but Lindo mentioned that he had done some practice three decades earlier for Spike Lee’s 1994 film Crooklyn, in which he played a struggling musician. “There were a couple other texts back and forth,” recalls the 72-year-old actor. “And finally I said, ‘What’s this about, bro?’”
After spending nearly the last decade working on his Black Panther duology, Coogler had written Sinners, a new original story about twin brothers returning to their small Mississippi hometown in 1932 to open a club. Coogler’s go-to collaborator, Michael B. Jordan, was set to play both Smoke and Stack, who cut their teeth as gangsters in Chicago. Coogler questioned Lindo’s possible piano skills because he wanted him as Delta Slim, a musician whose instrumental talents are only surpassed by his thirst for alcohol. Wanting to go big for opening night, Stack makes Slim an offer to perform that he can’t refuse.
“He sent me the script, I read it, and of course I had some notes,” Lindo says of Coogler eventually telling him about Sinners. “Once we started exchanging on that level, we were off to the races.”
Starting a small business is already hard enough, but imagine a group of blood-sucking vampires showing up and asking to be let in! Unfortunately for Smoke, Stack, Slim and their friends, an epic first evening turns into a bloody nightmare when evil comes knocking.
If Lindo signing on for a vampire movie sounds familiar, you’re not mistaken. Back in 2021, Lindo was cast in Marvel’s highly-anticipated Blade film, which immediately became one of the most-anticipated MCU projects when it was announced in 2019 that two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali would take on the role made famous by Wesley Snipes. But, now six years after that now-infamous Comic-Con panel, multiple directors and writers have entered and exited the picture, no filming start or release date is known, and Lindo has moved on from Blade to Sinners.
You mentioned Crooklyn, but, 30 years removed from that, how did you go about preparing to at least look like a believable piano and harmonica player?
Ludwig Göransson and his wife Serena [McKinney] were the musical directors on the film, and they’re really good at what they do. It was a very immersive process with them, piano, harmonica, singing. Unfortunately, none of my singing is in the finished cut — but that’s not because I can’t sing! [Laughs.] I don’t know, maybe other people might have a different opinion about that. Ludwig and Serena are very consistent, and it wasn’t easy, but it was very intentional and we were all moving in the same direction, knowing what needed to be achieved.
There are two very specific types of acting that I’m always fascinated with: phone-acting and drunk-acting. Here, you pull off some great physical comedy in regards to Delta’s fondness for alcohol, whether it be his reaction to an Irish beer being cracked open, or when he takes the garlic and appears to be turning into a vampire. That has to be a fine line to walk, right? Like, you don’t want to risk going too far and being a caricature.
I hear what you’re saying, and I understand why you’re saying it, but, from my standpoint, being in the scene and manifesting those moments, yes, I did have the idea of, I have been drinking, but, believe it or not, I don’t think I deconstructed it down to, oh, I have to act drunk. In what I was trying to do, there was a playfulness and lightness that contributed to how I navigated those scenes. It came down to not specifically working on the drunken aspect, but working on some other components that I hoped would convey the drunkenness.
Over the years, you’ve acted opposite so many different types of leading men, including Denzel Washington, Jet Li, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. On Sinners, you had this unique experience with Michael, watching him portray two characters. Was there something in particular that struck you about Michael?
Michael’s humanness, his down-to-earthness. From the beginning, with me, Michael was an open vessel. He was incredibly complimentary of me and what my work has meant to him. And it wasn’t fawning, it wasn’t obsequious. It was just really one professional to another, but there was an openness about the way that he communicated that to me, and it gave a relaxedness to the work. Sometimes when one is working with a big movie star — which is what Michael is, aside from being a very fine actor — it’s not always a given that one can have that kind of relaxedness and ease of communication, but certainly that was the case with Michael B. Jordan.
For me, as a movie fan, the announcement of this project was thrilling because it meant that Ryan was back to creating his own original content. Like with actors, you’ve worked with an incredible list of directors, such as John Woo, David Mamet, Ron Howard, and your frequent collaborator Spike Lee. In your eyes, what makes Ryan a unique talent?
He’s very clear about what he wants to do and how he wants to go about doing it. There’s a profound generosity of spirit and an openness with Ryan, as a communicator, a storyteller, a colleague, a collaborator. And I cannot speak highly enough about what that means to be an actor and have that kind of communication with one’s director; it just makes everything easier.
You, Ryan and Michael share this connection through your relationships with the late Chadwick Boseman. You and Spike partnered up with him for Da 5 Bloods, while Ryan and Michael had their historic collaboration with him on Black Panther. On Sinners, was that something that would come up between you all, or that you thought about?
We talked about Chadwick, intermittently. To your point, I’d like to believe it’s kind of an unspoken bond, in terms of our appreciation and respect for him, our grief at his no longer being here — even though everybody expresses grief differently. And that was not a part of our conversations, but it was certainly something that one was aware of. I would say that the overall dynamic with Chadwick had to do with a recollection of what a fine actor and gentleman he was.
If we look at your last three films, Da 5 Bloods, The Harder They Fall, and now Sinners, you’ve found success in these great ensembles of Black actors, in projects from Black directors. And these aren’t some small movies, like there’s real investment there. Is that something you’ve noticed and been conscious of, and do you have hope that those continued wins will make movies like these more and more frequent in the industry?
I’ll be thrilled if that happens. I’m a circumspect individual, and so therefore I don’t assume anything. However, these filmmakers, and I do include Spike in this, even though Spike has been around a lot longer than Jeymes Samuels and Ryan Coogler, but this crest of creativity — in my own personal experience, Da 5 Bloods, The Harder They Fall, Sinners — represents a positioning of a creative bar at a certain level.
And yes, I pray that the positioning of that bar continues to move upwards. I don’t know if Jeymes and Ryan are part of a new wave of creative workers, but I hope so. And I hope that their work, as well as that of Spike, who laid the groundwork for these kinds of filmmakers and a whole slew of actors like myself, continues to blossom. We shall see.
You’re starring in Sinners, a movie featuring vampires, and this comes on the heels of you initially being cast in Mahershala Ali’s Blade, also a movie featuring vampires. Is that just pure coincidence, or did you just really want to kill some vampires?
I’m not drawn to vampires, per se. [Laughs.] I’d like to believe I’m drawn to good work, good filmmaking, good filmmakers, and good storytelling. But no, just coincidence.
I remember everyone thinking what a no-brainer it was to do a Blade movie with Mahershala Ali. And, from the outside, it’s kind of shocking to believe how hard it apparently has been to make that a reality. As someone who was involved with it at one point, what appealed to you about the prospect of Blade?
There were a couple of components. The filmmakers and the top brass at Marvel were very open to my input from the very beginning, and that was encouraging and affirming. And then when I started speaking with the person who was attached to direct at the time, Bassam [Tariq], the writer, the producers, there was just an incredible openness to my input. And, as we started discussing back and forth, the kernels of a character, of a human being started to develop, and that really, really excited me. I think the character was likely going to be a leader of his community. I’m not sure how much can be said, or where things stand with that, per se, and things were still in development.
Blade is somehow the second Marvel project that you’ve signed onto but hasn’t seen the light of day. Back in 2016, you starred in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff pilot Marvel’s Most Wanted, which ABC elected to not pick up to series. I don’t know, are you starting to take this personal?
Maybe the third time will be the charm!
Even if you aren’t involved, do you hope that Mahershala still gets his shot to be Blade?
Yeah, I have no idea what the status of that project is, but if it moves forward, with or without me, more power to ‘em.
Other than maybe finally having a Marvel gig work out, what’s left on the Delroy Lindo career bucket list?
I have a project that I am going to direct. It’s a property that I bought the rights to some years ago, and I’ve been in the business of fundraising, financing. I can’t say too much about it yet, but I’m very committed to seeing that project get made. And I’m writing a memoir-ish book. I think it’s a story that deserves to be told, and it’s a story that I’m excited about being part of telling.
And the third thing I would say that’s exciting me right now is, and I’m not being coy or flippant with this, but I’m just really excited that I’m continuing to work on projects of quality. Because none of this is promised. At this stage of my career, I have seen talented actors fall between the cracks for whatever reason, talented actors who don’t get the shot. And the fact that I’m still here working is deeply, deeply, deeply gratifying.
By Derek Lawrence, a freelance writer who covers film and TV
One day Delroy Lindo received an unexpected text from Creed and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler: “Do you play piano?” Technically, the answer was no, but Lindo mentioned that he had done some practice three decades earlier for Spike Lee’s 1994 film Crooklyn, in which he played a struggling musician. “There were a couple other texts back and forth,” recalls the 72-year-old actor. “And finally I said, ‘What’s this about, bro?’”
After spending nearly the last decade working on his Black Panther duology, Coogler had written Sinners, a new original story about twin brothers returning to their small Mississippi hometown in 1932 to open a club. Coogler’s go-to collaborator, Michael B. Jordan, was set to play both Smoke and Stack, who cut their teeth as gangsters in Chicago. Coogler questioned Lindo’s possible piano skills because he wanted him as Delta Slim, a musician whose instrumental talents are only surpassed by his thirst for alcohol. Wanting to go big for opening night, Stack makes Slim an offer to perform that he can’t refuse.
“He sent me the script, I read it, and of course I had some notes,” Lindo says of Coogler eventually telling him about Sinners. “Once we started exchanging on that level, we were off to the races.”
Starting a small business is already hard enough, but imagine a group of blood-sucking vampires showing up and asking to be let in! Unfortunately for Smoke, Stack, Slim and their friends, an epic first evening turns into a bloody nightmare when evil comes knocking.
If Lindo signing on for a vampire movie sounds familiar, you’re not mistaken. Back in 2021, Lindo was cast in Marvel’s highly-anticipated Blade film, which immediately became one of the most-anticipated MCU projects when it was announced in 2019 that two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali would take on the role made famous by Wesley Snipes. But, now six years after that now-infamous Comic-Con panel, multiple directors and writers have entered and exited the picture, no filming start or release date is known, and Lindo has moved on from Blade to Sinners.
You mentioned Crooklyn, but, 30 years removed from that, how did you go about preparing to at least look like a believable piano and harmonica player?
Ludwig Göransson and his wife Serena [McKinney] were the musical directors on the film, and they’re really good at what they do. It was a very immersive process with them, piano, harmonica, singing. Unfortunately, none of my singing is in the finished cut — but that’s not because I can’t sing! [Laughs.] I don’t know, maybe other people might have a different opinion about that. Ludwig and Serena are very consistent, and it wasn’t easy, but it was very intentional and we were all moving in the same direction, knowing what needed to be achieved.
There are two very specific types of acting that I’m always fascinated with: phone-acting and drunk-acting. Here, you pull off some great physical comedy in regards to Delta’s fondness for alcohol, whether it be his reaction to an Irish beer being cracked open, or when he takes the garlic and appears to be turning into a vampire. That has to be a fine line to walk, right? Like, you don’t want to risk going too far and being a caricature.
I hear what you’re saying, and I understand why you’re saying it, but, from my standpoint, being in the scene and manifesting those moments, yes, I did have the idea of, I have been drinking, but, believe it or not, I don’t think I deconstructed it down to, oh, I have to act drunk. In what I was trying to do, there was a playfulness and lightness that contributed to how I navigated those scenes. It came down to not specifically working on the drunken aspect, but working on some other components that I hoped would convey the drunkenness.
Over the years, you’ve acted opposite so many different types of leading men, including Denzel Washington, Jet Li, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. On Sinners, you had this unique experience with Michael, watching him portray two characters. Was there something in particular that struck you about Michael?
Michael’s humanness, his down-to-earthness. From the beginning, with me, Michael was an open vessel. He was incredibly complimentary of me and what my work has meant to him. And it wasn’t fawning, it wasn’t obsequious. It was just really one professional to another, but there was an openness about the way that he communicated that to me, and it gave a relaxedness to the work. Sometimes when one is working with a big movie star — which is what Michael is, aside from being a very fine actor — it’s not always a given that one can have that kind of relaxedness and ease of communication, but certainly that was the case with Michael B. Jordan.
For me, as a movie fan, the announcement of this project was thrilling because it meant that Ryan was back to creating his own original content. Like with actors, you’ve worked with an incredible list of directors, such as John Woo, David Mamet, Ron Howard, and your frequent collaborator Spike Lee. In your eyes, what makes Ryan a unique talent?
He’s very clear about what he wants to do and how he wants to go about doing it. There’s a profound generosity of spirit and an openness with Ryan, as a communicator, a storyteller, a colleague, a collaborator. And I cannot speak highly enough about what that means to be an actor and have that kind of communication with one’s director; it just makes everything easier.
You, Ryan and Michael share this connection through your relationships with the late Chadwick Boseman. You and Spike partnered up with him for Da 5 Bloods, while Ryan and Michael had their historic collaboration with him on Black Panther. On Sinners, was that something that would come up between you all, or that you thought about?
We talked about Chadwick, intermittently. To your point, I’d like to believe it’s kind of an unspoken bond, in terms of our appreciation and respect for him, our grief at his no longer being here — even though everybody expresses grief differently. And that was not a part of our conversations, but it was certainly something that one was aware of. I would say that the overall dynamic with Chadwick had to do with a recollection of what a fine actor and gentleman he was.
If we look at your last three films, Da 5 Bloods, The Harder They Fall, and now Sinners, you’ve found success in these great ensembles of Black actors, in projects from Black directors. And these aren’t some small movies, like there’s real investment there. Is that something you’ve noticed and been conscious of, and do you have hope that those continued wins will make movies like these more and more frequent in the industry?
I’ll be thrilled if that happens. I’m a circumspect individual, and so therefore I don’t assume anything. However, these filmmakers, and I do include Spike in this, even though Spike has been around a lot longer than Jeymes Samuels and Ryan Coogler, but this crest of creativity — in my own personal experience, Da 5 Bloods, The Harder They Fall, Sinners — represents a positioning of a creative bar at a certain level.
And yes, I pray that the positioning of that bar continues to move upwards. I don’t know if Jeymes and Ryan are part of a new wave of creative workers, but I hope so. And I hope that their work, as well as that of Spike, who laid the groundwork for these kinds of filmmakers and a whole slew of actors like myself, continues to blossom. We shall see.
You’re starring in Sinners, a movie featuring vampires, and this comes on the heels of you initially being cast in Mahershala Ali’s Blade, also a movie featuring vampires. Is that just pure coincidence, or did you just really want to kill some vampires?
I’m not drawn to vampires, per se. [Laughs.] I’d like to believe I’m drawn to good work, good filmmaking, good filmmakers, and good storytelling. But no, just coincidence.
I remember everyone thinking what a no-brainer it was to do a Blade movie with Mahershala Ali. And, from the outside, it’s kind of shocking to believe how hard it apparently has been to make that a reality. As someone who was involved with it at one point, what appealed to you about the prospect of Blade?
There were a couple of components. The filmmakers and the top brass at Marvel were very open to my input from the very beginning, and that was encouraging and affirming. And then when I started speaking with the person who was attached to direct at the time, Bassam [Tariq], the writer, the producers, there was just an incredible openness to my input. And, as we started discussing back and forth, the kernels of a character, of a human being started to develop, and that really, really excited me. I think the character was likely going to be a leader of his community. I’m not sure how much can be said, or where things stand with that, per se, and things were still in development.
Blade is somehow the second Marvel project that you’ve signed onto but hasn’t seen the light of day. Back in 2016, you starred in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff pilot Marvel’s Most Wanted, which ABC elected to not pick up to series. I don’t know, are you starting to take this personal?
Maybe the third time will be the charm!
Even if you aren’t involved, do you hope that Mahershala still gets his shot to be Blade?
Yeah, I have no idea what the status of that project is, but if it moves forward, with or without me, more power to ‘em.
Other than maybe finally having a Marvel gig work out, what’s left on the Delroy Lindo career bucket list?
I have a project that I am going to direct. It’s a property that I bought the rights to some years ago, and I’ve been in the business of fundraising, financing. I can’t say too much about it yet, but I’m very committed to seeing that project get made. And I’m writing a memoir-ish book. I think it’s a story that deserves to be told, and it’s a story that I’m excited about being part of telling.
And the third thing I would say that’s exciting me right now is, and I’m not being coy or flippant with this, but I’m just really excited that I’m continuing to work on projects of quality. Because none of this is promised. At this stage of my career, I have seen talented actors fall between the cracks for whatever reason, talented actors who don’t get the shot. And the fact that I’m still here working is deeply, deeply, deeply gratifying.
This interview is kind of deep because he said Ryan cougar already had this shit in the script. That's amazing. To have done so much research on another culture for to be so spot on that it surprised them. That's like me finding out James Patterson was white
(Now, I know many of the people who write under the James Patterson name as ghostwriters may be Black, but still, you get the point)
Props to Ryan Coogler for that insane amount of research
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