Ryan Coogler Says 'Sinners' Is His First Film That Is “Just Me” — And We’re All Dying for More of What He Has Up His Sleeves

From the outset, nothing about Sinners, the upcoming vampire-hunting horror-thriller by Ryan Coogler, suggests that it is a deeply personal expression from one of our finest working directors. Both Fruitvale Station and Creed are contemporary stories about the harsh, and often tragic, realities of life, while Sinners merely looks like an inventive genre exercise executed on the biggest stage thanks to the spectacle of IMAX photography. In a recent, candid interview with Deadline, Coogler, from his perspective, admitted that Sinners is his first feature film that is truly "just me," a representation of himself as a person and an artist. Whether he's valid in his claim is less interesting than how this comment relates to the state of the industry and his reflection on his already storied career. At the very least, this honest statement only makes our excitement for Sinnersgo through the roof.