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4. Inspired By Puss In Boots - Sinners
When Sinners released earlier in 2025, it proved several things. Any time Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan collaborate, audiences are going to be in for something good, and you can still take a genre that has seemingly been done to death, like a vampire story, and produce something innovative and original.
What Ryan Coogler also proved is that inspiration can come from some of the most surprising of places. The writer/director of Sinners has spoken about how much of the film's pacing was inspired by Metallica's anthem "One", while he also looked to a surprising cinematic villain when creating his own.
The man to antagonise Smoke and Stack (both Michael B. Jordan) was Remmick (Jack O'Connell), a vampiric demon who would stop at nothing to get at Sammie (Miles Caton), and who according to Coogler was inspired by Death, the main villain from 2022's Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Normally, you wouldn't have dreamed of putting both Sinners and Puss in Boots within the same Venn diagram, but here we are. Coogler cited Death's defining features and his demeanor as something that helped him in creating Remmick, something that goes far beyond the fact that they both have red eyes and like to bite people.