Speaking with Proximity Media, Coogler detailed what Smoke and Stack were up to years before the twins left for Chicago and made their grand homecoming, kicking off the vampiric festivities of Sinners. “They killed their father, hid out at Mary’s mom’s place, then went to New York and joined the military,” Coogler said. Smoke and Annie got their house, and Stack and Mary went to Little Rock. When [Smoke and Annie] lost their daughter was when things got rocky; they both basically left their partners and went to Chicago. We will, however, accept an animated prequel in the style of the film’s opening sequence, should Coogler feel so inclined.