As Ryan Coogler’s frequent collaborator over the past 15 years, it’s no surprise that composer Ludwig Göransson was chosen to score his latest film Sinners .

“When he told me that he was writing a movie about a guitar player, I was kind of very surprised and excited,” Göransson said at Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film event. “One of the first things we did was got to Mississippi and go down to the Delta … and it was just an incredible journey.”

The journey ended in Memphis, where Göransson was able to find local musicians to record the score. “We ended up at Royal Studios in Memphis, which is an incredible studio owned by Lawrence ‘Boo’ Mitchell, and that’s where we started having some incredible recording sessions with local musicians,” he said.

Although he’s known Coogler for ove

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