Candyman! Candyman! Candyman!
It looks like we may have our new Candyman as Aquaman’s Blank Manta, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, is in talks to star in MGM’s horror reboot with Get Out’s Jordan Peele producing.
The movie will be penned by Little Woods writer-director Nia DaCosta and is a ‘spiritual sequel’ to the original.
“It will return to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. The original “Candyman” was released in 1992 and follows a graduate student who explores the legend of Candyman while writing a thesis on urban legends.”
While we’re not the biggest fans of reboots, we do like the sound of this and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was one of the best things in Aquaman so we can get behind this…
Can he outdo Tony Todd? We’ll find out next summer…
Candyman is expected to hit theaters on June 12, 2020
Source: Variety
Marc
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