We still don’t know much at all about director Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman, billed as a “spiritual sequel” to the original and penned by Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. It’s unclear how exactly the film connects to the original and if Tony Todd will be making any sort of appearance or not, but now that filming is getting ready to begin we expect to learn more soon.
Chicago Tribute reports today that DaCosta’s Candyman “is slated to start filming in Chicago in mid-August and wrap in early fall.” The site adds, “Chicago is the only place where the movie will be shot, though filming locations have not been revealed.”
The movie will be both shot and set in Chicago.
If Beale Street Could Talk actress Teyonah Parris will reportedly play the girlfriend of an art dealer obsessed with the legend of Candyman in the film. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will also star.
The new movie returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.
MGM will bring Candyman back to life on June 12, 2020.
