Photo: Warner Bros Ryan Coogler ’s family influenced Sinners in more ways than one. In an interview with Variety , Coogler shared that he was listening to a lot of blues music during the press tour for Wakanda Forever as he was mourning his Uncle James, who was a blues lover from Mississippi, and the song “Wang Dang Doodle” inspired the overall premise of the movie. However, it wasn’t the only way his family was connected to Sinners . Filmmaker and cultural consultant on the film, Dolly Li,