Universal was set to bring a horror icon back to life on June 12, 2020 with the release of director Nia DaCosta‘s (Little Woods) Candyman, a “spiritual sequel” to the original classic from 1992. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic that’s forced movie theaters across the world to shut down, Universal will no longer be releasing Candyman on that date.
The brand new Candyman film will now slash up theaters on September 25, 2020.
Provided Halloween Kills doesn’t move, we’ll now be getting a new Candyman movie and a new Halloween movie within one month of each other. And we can’t complain about that!
Candyman comes from producer Jordan Peele, who co-wrote the film with Win Rosenfeld.
“For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.”
“With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.”
Alongside Peele, Win Rosenfeld and Ian Cooper produced for Monkeypaw Productions.
Production companies also include MGM and Bron Creative.
