{"id":107176,"date":"2019-02-27T13:14:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=107176"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:34:08","slug":"jordan-peeles-candyman-reboot-in-talks-with-yahya-abdul-mateen-ii-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/jordan-peeles-candyman-reboot-in-talks-with-yahya-abdul-mateen-ii-to-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peele&#8217;s Candyman reboot in talks with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Peele&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Candyman\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>reboot has found its star. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/news\/mgm-jordan-peele-aquamans-yahha-abdul-mateen-ii-as-their-new-candy-man-1203144190\/\">Variety<\/a>, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is in talks to take the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul-Mateen is known for playing Cadillac in Neflix original series<em><strong> The Get Down<\/strong><\/em>, and is set to appear in HBO&#8217;s <em><strong>Watchmen\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>series as well as in Peele&#8217;s upcoming horror film <em><strong>Us<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes shortly after the news that original\u00a0<em><strong>Candyman<\/strong><\/em> star Tony Todd hadn&#8217;t been approached about appearing in the new film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0know [Peele] is a fan, we\u2019re waiting just like the rest of the world,\u201d he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2019\/01\/30\/candyman-sequel-tony-todd-jordan-peele\/\">EW<\/a> at the start of February.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m hoping I will appear in the film in some form of fashion. Wouldn\u2019t that make sense? But it\u2019s Hollywood, so I won\u2019t take it personally if for some reason it doesn\u2019t work out. If this new one is successful, it will shed light back on the original. I think the subject matter is more important than any individuals. And I mean that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b><i>Candyman\u00a0<\/i><\/b>reboot\u00a0is being directed by\u00a0Nia DaCosta, writer-director of Tessa Thompson-starring crime drama\u00a0<strong><em>Little Woods<\/em><\/strong>, and Peele will produce. The project has been set up at Universal and it\u2019s been given a release date of\u00a0<strong>12 June 2020<\/strong>, with production starting this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a \u201cspiritual sequel\u201d to the original, it\u00a0\u201creturns to the neighbourhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1992 film was based on a Clive Barker short story and starred Virginia Madsen as a grad student who heads to Cabrini-Green to investigate the urban legend of the Candyman, who will appear behind you if you say his name five times into a mirror. The gory horror was rich in social commentary as well as gory scares and boasted an unforgettable performance from Todd in the title role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candyman will be released on 12 June 2020. Keep up with the latest horror news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Peele&#8217;s upcoming Candyman reboot has found its lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":107178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2205],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-1072447176-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}