Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection Sinnershas a surprising connection to theMarvel Cinematic Universe. Sev Ohanian, who producedRyan Coogler's hit 2025 vampire drama, has revealed that the flick repurposed unused costumes from Marvel's long-delayedBladefilm, a reboot of the originalBlademovie trilogy featuringWesley Snipesthat was set to starMahershala Ali. "Ruth Carter was working on theBlademovie that ended up not shooting — which I think they're still going to make," the producer explained in a newinterview with ScreenCrush."At one point, that film was going to deal with the past around the same era asSinners." TheMichael B. Jordan–starring project is set in 1932 in the middle of the Great Depression, and Carter — who won Oscars for her costumes in Coogler'sBlack Pantherfilms — was able to pull from the work she'd already completed forBladewhen it came time to dress the cast ofSinners. "She happened to have a warehouse full of period-appropriate clothes, and it was like, 'Yo, we got to shoot this movie, like, tomorrow,'" Ohanian said. "And Marvel was generous enough and kind enough to let us basically purchase it at price." The producer rejected the notion that theBladecostumes were used forSinners' principal cast members, though. "A lot of the background actors in our movie are wearing those clothes," he explained, pushing against the interviewer's theory that "Mahershala Ali–sized" actors would have especially benefitted from the costume transaction. "It was all about the background actors." Carter previously toldDesigning Hollywoodhow her work onBladeinformed theSinnerscostumes. "I was preppingBladefor Marvel, and it was a 1920sBladestory, and it got shut down because of the writers' strike and the actors' strike," she said in April, "so I was just in limbo, you know, having done a lot of research for this period piece about a vampire." Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection Once she heard about Coogler's idea forSinners, she saw a golden opportunity to put thatBladeresearch to good use. "I thought, 'Okay, I have already been living in that space for quite a long time, preppingBlade,andBlade's not going to happen, so let me hear it,'" she recalled. CooglertoldEntertainment Weeklyin April that the film's central time-bending juke joint sequence, which features dozens of extras costumed by Carter, was among the project's most complicated to shoot. "We did a lot of rehearsals, and our crew size swelled up from that," the director explained. "We expanded for all of the extras and the dancers and all of the different materials we needed." Shooting the scene on IMAX film proved particularly difficult. "It would be impossible to film it in one take," Coogler said. "They can only film for about a minute and a half — maybe it's a minute and 45 — because they rip through film at such a speed that you can only shoot for so long. So we basically broke it up into sections that were as long as we could film per reel." Want more movie news? Sign up forEntertainment Weekly'sfree newsletterto get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Marvel first announcedBladeat San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, shortly after the release ofAvengers: Endgame. Six years later, the movie has cycled through multiple directors and screenwriters, andno longer has a release dateset on Marvel's calendar. "I'm just taking it a day at a time," Alirecently toldThe Hollywood Reporterof the film being stuck in development purgatory. "I would love forBladeto happen. We'll see. I don't know where Marvel is at right now. I'm just looking for the next great part. I really am." Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly