Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan brought Sinners, a 1930s Mississippi story of twin brothers, music and vampires, to its European premiere in Leicester Square.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners held its European premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square in the West End on Monday 14 April 2025, four days before it opened in British cinemas. Michael B. Jordan, who plays twin brothers, led the cast with Coogler.
Jordan was born in Santa Ana, California, in 1987 and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He played Wallace in The Wire at fifteen, then Vince Howard in Friday Night Lights.
In 2013 Coogler cast him as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, their first film together, and Creed and Black Panther, with Jordan as Killmonger, followed. Coogler, born in Oakland in 1986, studied film at the University of Southern California, and Fruitvale Station won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Coogler wrote Sinners from his own family’s history in Mississippi. Set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, it follows the twins Smoke and Stack as they return from Chicago to open a juke joint. A night of blues there draws something older and hungrier to the door.
Coogler shot it on large-format film for IMAX. Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo joined them at the premiere, with Miles Caton, who plays the twins’ cousin Sammie.