Nia Dacosta’s Candyman gets a new trailer

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, we would have already have seen the new CANDYMAN film. It had been scheduled to reach theatres on June 12th, but had to be pushed back to September 25th when the theatres closed down. The marketing machine is still running, though. Earlier this month director Nia Dacosta posted an interesting Candyman video online, and now we've gotten our hands on a new preview. 30 seconds long, the preview can be seen in the video embedded above and if followed by the full-length trailer.

Dacosta directed this new CANDYMAN from a screenplay she wrote with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. Described as a "spiritual sequel" to the 1992 classic, this one has the following synopsis: 

Don’t say his name.

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 and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, 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 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.

Oscar-winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett star in the film, with original CANDYMAN cast member Vanessa Williams returning to reprise the role of Anne-Marie McCoy. The Anthony McCoy mentioned in the synopsis is believed to be the son of Anne-Marie, the baby from the first film. 

Tony Todd is also expected to appear in the film in some capacity.

Peele and Rosenfeld produced CANDYMAN with Ian Cooper, through Peele's company Monkeypaw Productions.