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The director of hit new horror movie says his vision for the film was inspired by Metallica's single . The track was the third single from Metallica's fourth album – and its lyrics and musical direction gave director Ryan Coogler a blueprint for the movie. stars Michael B.
Jordan in two roles as twins confronted by a supernatural evil. It is currently ranked 98% fresh on movie review site Rotten Tomatoes and the trailer can be viewed below. Coogler tells the : "I wanted the movie to feel like a song, so I used Metallica’s .
" Coogler says the film, like the song, "starts off intense, then gets melodic and going somewhere just fucking crazy. But by the time you’re finished, it was clear you were always going to get there." Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich contributed to the score.
Coogler hails from the Bay Area, where Metallica made their name, and says he is a fan of the band but he got into them late. In , Michael B. Jordan plays twins Smoke and Stack, described as veterans of the Chicago organized crime wars who come home to a small Mississippi town with hopes of starting a jazz club outside of town.
Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! The white population object but the brothers unite the black and Asian population who are crying out for entertainment. The song tells the macabre story of an infantryman who steps on a landmine and wakes to gradually discover he has lost his arms and legs and his five senses. Stef wrote close to 5,000 stories during his time as assistant online news editor and later as online news editor between 2014-2016.
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