With one of the highest-grossing horrors of the year under his belt, Ryan Coogler recently revealed how he found inspiration in a Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM).

During his Sinners panel on Saturday at Deadline Contenders Film, the writer and director noted that 2001’s The Luck of the Irish stoked his fascination with Irish culture’s similarities to Black culture, inspiring the villainous Remmick ( Jack O’Connell ) in his Mississippi Delta-set vampire film.

“That was our first introduction to some of the similarities in Irish folk music to, basically, our music,” he explained to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. “There was a small Irish community in The Bay, and we would talk about it. That movie was kind of a touchpoint for us to jump off of, crazy enough. We’ve been fasci

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