Taglines: Dare to Say His Name.
Candyman Movie Storyline. For as long as the residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by the word-of-mouth ghost story about the supernatural killer Daniel Robitaille, aka the Candyman, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror.
In the present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, a visual artist named Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, an art gallery director named Brianna Cartwright, moved into a luxurious loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by the 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 the 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 the terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with his destiny.
Candyman is an upcoming American supernatural slasher film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld and DaCosta. It is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name and the fourth film in the Candyman film series, based on the short story “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker. The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Colman Domingo, along with Tony Todd and Vanessa Estelle Williams reprising their roles from the original film.
Candyman is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on August 27, 2021, by Universal Pictures. Its release date was delayed three times from an original June 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Candyman (2021)
Directed by: Nia DaCosta
Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Rebecca Spence, Cassie Kramer, Brian King, Miriam Moss, Hannah Love Jones, Pamela Jones
Screenplay by: Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta
Production Design by: Cara Brower
Cinematography by: John Guleserian
Film Editing by: atrin Hedström
Costume Design by: Lizzie Cook
Set Decoration by: Ryan Watson, Mandy Stoehr
Art Direction by: Jami Primmer, Ines Rose
Music by: Robert A. A. Lowe
MPAA Rating: R for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: August 27, 2021
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