Even as Ryan Coogler took the opportunity to announce that Black Panther 3 would be his next film, he revealed why he felt compelled to step back from the blockbuster franchise films and intimate biopics that have propelled his career to make the whole-cloth original Sinners . And the reason was to give back as much as he’s received.

“I think it was because, truly, the global filmgoing audience had given so much to me,” Coogler explained during the Sinners panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles on Saturday. “I feel so blessed that at my age, each film that I’ve ever written indirectly has been released theatrically, has been released at some level internationally. And I don’t take that for granted because sitting in the theater was where I fell in love with movies.”

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