As "Sinners" continues to bask in its recently earned Oscar nominations, the director Ryan Coogler and leading man Michael B. Jordan are sharing all-new details about the fictitious Smokestack Twins, their lore, and what all they got into before the events of the movie take place.
If you haven't seen the movie by now (fix that expeditiously please and thank you), it follows the infamous identical twins, Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore as they return to their hometown of Clarksdale, Miss. in to start a new chapter in life in 1932. Their goal? To create something for Black people, by Black people in the name of ownership and authority. Thusly, "Club Juke" is born. However, an evil presence is looming that threatens their grand opening and eventually turns what shoulda been a momentous occasion into a fight for survival.
After many viewers saw the film, there were swift calls for a second iteration of sorts, whether that be a sequel film or a prequel that follows exactly what the twins -- who had come back from Chicago and were gang-banging with Al Capone prior to them coming back to Mississippi -- were up to. But while Coogler has been adamant that "Sinners" is a...
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