“I’m in it for my heart. I got this movie on my heart,” he explained. “And yeah, from the outside looking in, you might say, ‘Man, why this fucking dude making another one of those?’ But that’s totally fine, that question makes sense. And it’s my job as a filmmaker to show why.”

That an amazing quote from Coogler. I get that you’re skeptical, but my job is to make a cool movie that you still want to see.

Dang. I would have liked to have seen that movie.

The big thing about the script was a thing called the Ritual of 8 where, [when] a prince is 8 years old, he has to go spend 8 days in the bush with his father,” the Sinners writer-helmer explained. “The rule is for those 8 days the prince can ask the father any question and the father has to answer. During the course of those 8 days, Namor launches an attack … and it was a different version of Namor in that script, but he had to deal with someone who’s insanely dangerous, but because of this ritual, his son had to be joined at his hip the whole time … or else they’d have to violate this ritual that had never been broken. It was insane, and Chadwick was going to kill it, but life goes as it goes.”

That definitely sounds like it would have been interesting!