Ryan Coogler is explaining how he pulled off a magic trick.
He’s not talking about convincing Warner Bros. to greenlight “Sinners,” a $90-million blues-steeped thriller about vampires descending on a small Southern town in the 1930s. Nor is he referencing the nearly unprecedented agreement with the studio that will see the copyright of the film revert to him after 25 years. He’s explaining how they managed to make this movie at all — and on a near-impossible timetable, going from pitch to production in three months. When “Sinners” hits theaters on Friday, it’ll be nearly a year to the day since Imax cameras started rolling on location in Louisiana.
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