Producer Jordan Peele's "spiritual sequel" to Bernard Rose's 1992 adaptation of Clive Barker's CANDYMAN starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (AQUAMAN) and Teyonah Parris (IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK) began principal photography last month in Chicago. And today we have word via Abdul-Mateen II that filming has wrapped on the reboot.
He tweets:
Hat tip of gratitude and love to our hard-working and brilliant film crew who make all the magic happen behind the curtains. Thank you to JORDAN PEELE and MGM for trusting me with this baby. Thank you to our director, NIA DACOSTA, for guiding me through and protecting my talent. I appreciate you. Thank you to my girl, TEYONAH PARRIS!!!! for making it fun and bringing it EVERY DAY, and to COLEMAN DOMINGO for adding your magic to the mix, as well as the rest of the cast. Most importantly thank you to CHICAGO and more specifically CABRINI-GREEN for hosting us and inviting us in to haunt the space for a few months. We promise to do our best to make it worth the while. Can't wait to share this one with the world. In GRATITUDE! Over and out. #Candyman2020
The “spiritual sequel” will return to the neighborhood where the legend began: The now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. Based on Barker's story The Forbidden, the original CANDYMAN was directed by Bernard Rose. The synopsis:
A children's ghost story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit of the dead. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) laughs when she interviews college freshmen about their superstitions. But when she hears about Candyman, a slave spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, she thinks she has a new twist for this thesis. Braving the gang-ridden territory to visit the site of a brutal murder, Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist… until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, tragic slayings. But the police don't believe in monsters, and they charge Helen with the grisly crimes. Only one person can set her free: CANDYMAN.
LITTLE WOODS writer-director Nia DaCosta will be taking the helm of this Jordan Peele-produced reboot which Universal Pictures will unleash into a theater near you on June 12, 2020. How excited are YOU about this “spiritual sequel?" Let us know below!