Candyman
In Theaters August 27
https://www.CandymanMovie.com

Don’t say his epithet.

Oscar(r) win Jordan Peele looses a fresh take over the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably asked about at a sleepover: Candyman. Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta( Little Woods) leads this contemporary incarnation of the worship classic.

For as long as inhabitants can recollect, the house projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a superhuman gunman with a steal for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his mention five times into a reflect. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy( Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his lover, gallery lead Brianna Cartwright( Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph ), move into a indulgence loft condo in Cabrini , now gentrified beyond acknowledgment and colonized by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting busines on the verge of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer( Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically terrifying quality of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre items in his studio as fresh grist for paints, unknowingly opening a doorway to a complex past that disentangles his own normality and unleashes a frightening beckon of violence that leans him on a collision course with destiny.

Universal Pictures represents, from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld’s Monkeypaw Production, in association with BRON Creative, Candyman. Candyman is directed by DaCosta, and generated by Ian Cooper( Us ), Rosenfeld and Peele. The screenplay is by Peele& Rosenfeld and DaCosta. The film is based on the 1992 film Candyman, written by Bernard Rose, and the short story “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker. The film’s executive makes are David Kern, Aaron L. Gilbert and Jason Cloth.

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