CANDYMAN Reboot Taps LITTLE WOODS Filmmaker Nia DaCosta To Direct; Release Date Revealed

CANDYMAN Reboot Taps LITTLE WOODS Filmmaker Nia DaCosta To Direct; Release Date Revealed

We recently brought you the news that MGM was planning to remake horror classic Candyman with Get Out director Jordan Peele on board to produce, and now we have word that Nia DaCosta will helm the picture.

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By MarkCassidy - Nov 27, 2018 01:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Via Variety
Universal and MGM have found a director for their Jordan Peele-produced Candyman remake, which is actually being referred to as a “spiritual sequel” to the original '90s horror classic.

Little Woods director and writer Nia DaCosta has been tapped to helm the movie, which has been given a release date of June 12, 2020.

“The original was a landmark film for black representation in the horror genre. Alongside Night of the Living Dead, Candyman was a major inspiration for me as filmmaker — and to have a bold new talent like Nia at the helm of this project is truly exciting," said Peele in a statement. "We are honored to bring the next chapter in the ‘Candyman’ canon to life and eager to provide new audiences with an entry point to Clive Barker’s legend.”

Specific plot details remain under wraps for now, but we do know that this retelling will "return to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood."

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knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 11/27/2018, 1:41 PM
might as well i guess .... i'll give it to the horror genre at this point , has really stepped up. hopefully they find a great actor to fill shoes dynamic wise.


i almost want them to remake my favorite "the thing" aside from the prequel (which was actually good) but some classics don't need to be touched.
smgmayhem
smgmayhem - 11/27/2018, 1:52 PM
@knocturnalzen10 - Yeah John Carpenter's iteration is phenomenal. It was ahead of its time with the creative use of practical effects. And I did enjoy the prequel as well.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 11/27/2018, 1:57 PM
@smgmayhem - EXACTLY ! and it almost ended his career :/

i don't know about anybody else but the thing freaks me out to know end :( being isolated and know if you're with 9 people in a area you may have to put down at least 2-3 ......and the fact that it eats you on a celular level makes my skin crawl
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 1:59 PM
@knocturnalzen10 - I'm not a big remake fan but I want to see these remade

Cult classics
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 11/27/2018, 2:02 PM
@BlackBeltJones - no joke good friend, is that second one real scary wise ?lol

GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:04 PM
@knocturnalzen10 - lol its creepy. Its labeled as a horror.

But hey, last month's Halloween wasn't scary at all imo.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 11/27/2018, 2:07 PM
@BlackBeltJones - oh ok gotcha lol

and nah i don't think the new one was scary at all but i thought it captured the idea of the original and it was a good movie imo.

check this old one called demons it's a french one
https://www.google.com/search?q=demons+movie&safe=active&sout=1&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibu6rCyvXeAhWQqlMKHc-hASsQ_AUICygC&biw=1600&bih=834&dpr=1

that one was pretty creepy as well and silly in some parts lol
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 11/27/2018, 2:08 PM
@BlackBeltJones

I don’t think Sleepaway Camp could ever be made again. At least if all the storybeats remain the same.

What a weird movie.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:11 PM
@knocturnalzen10 - this demons look interesting
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 11/27/2018, 2:15 PM
@BlackBeltJones - watch it , when you get the chance .
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:16 PM
@regularmovieguy - very weird but damn entertaining.

You'd have to...tame some of the plot points in Sleepaway. Idk...that ending was truly shocking. One of the best twists in a film Ive seen.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 11/27/2018, 2:19 PM
@BlackBeltJones

I saw it months ago for the first time and my jaw was on the floor. Truly a “wtf” movie.

I’d love to see another crack at it, too. You ever see the sequels?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:22 PM
@regularmovieguy - never seen the sequels. Been meaning to. Saw the first 2 years ago for the first time.
DeadWade213
DeadWade213 - 11/27/2018, 2:24 PM
@BlackBeltJones - Man that ending traumatized me for years.
Origame
Origame - 11/27/2018, 2:25 PM
@BlackBeltJones - considering the twist of teenage girl really being a boy and the only reason we knew about that was because they showed her naked, i doubt it.
DeadWade213
DeadWade213 - 11/27/2018, 2:26 PM
@Origame - Not just that but that face just.....*shudders*
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:27 PM
@Origame - it would be too controversial today yea. You'd have to tweak it some how.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 11/27/2018, 1:45 PM
Never watched any horror growing up (Too Much of a wuss) but always knew Tony Todd as Candyman no matter what else he popped up in.
Might go back and watch the big ones like Halloween because of the new sequel.
There's a new girl on our team at work and she was watching horror films at age 5....!!!
Lostcause
Lostcause - 11/27/2018, 1:53 PM
@SimplyAz - My daughters live for Horror films. Goblin loves the feeling of being scared. My Creature loves the twists and turns and the supence part.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 11/27/2018, 1:54 PM
@SimplyAz - yea i have a close friend that he and all of his siblings watched nightmare on elm street at like 5 or 6 something insane like that. you noticed those type it takes outlandish french or Japanese unsettling ones to get them unnerved.

Halloween one is a classic the second was good but you knew john wasn't expecting that type of huge success , that's why he wrote the twist with them being brother and sister .... the original idea was he picked her because she came back to the house , which is wild. the new will show that more that , he isn't rational or something to understand ....
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 11/27/2018, 2:17 PM
@Lostcause -

Oh man that is cool that they love them, and something that you can all watch together.
I tried to get my kids into movies, especially action films but they're not inclined to really watch movies.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 11/27/2018, 2:25 PM
@knocturnalzen10 -

Those French and Japanese one's must be really rough if that's what takes to break they're threshold.

That's interesting about Halloween.

I read a great book about the making of the classic horror films called Shock Value by Jason Zinoman. The most interesting part of it was about Wes Craven being a mild mannered Teacher but then making Last House on the Left and people being disgusted by him.
Lostcause
Lostcause - 11/27/2018, 3:04 PM
@SimplyAz - Oh poo! My Imps love film. We go a few times a month and have terabytes and cases of discs. They are 11 and 12 and just finished a lot of 80's films. They love Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Clive Barker, and a host of other filmmakers. We just started Season 3 of The Walking Dead and they are hooked on the show. We did a Zombie marathon on Thanksgiving, great stuff. We will start a Halloween run in the next few days. The love the New Halloween, but have only seen the 78 and Rob Zombie works. I've got them started on GoT but vWD has taken over the house. They are wicked excited for the new Child's Play coming out. They really liked Pandorum with Ben Foster. We seen it a few times over the last few weeks.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 11/27/2018, 3:17 PM
@Lostcause -

My kids are 11 and 7 but they just cannot seem to get that excited about films, but will watch the bigger kids movies. Me and my missus love films though.

Those are some solid films you have there, teaching your kids well.
Supafairy
Supafairy - 11/27/2018, 9:24 PM
@SimplyAz - I used to watch horror movies with my mom since I was a kid. This movie f-ed me up. One of the few that did. Excited to see what they going to give us.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 11/28/2018, 2:11 AM
@Supafairy -

Must have been really scary seeing it when your young. Glad that fans of it are getting more
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 11/27/2018, 1:47 PM
Need to rewatch the original.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 1:49 PM
Diamondback as Candyman



Elizabeth Olsen as Helen Lyle
Vigor
Vigor - 11/27/2018, 1:56 PM
@BlackBeltJones - that's some good casting
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:01 PM
@Vigor - I cant think of anyone else who could pull Candyman off. Dude has the right amount of camp and genuine creepiness to do it.

If they had to get a big name just because, maybe Sterling K. Brown.
MrCamw1
MrCamw1 - 11/27/2018, 2:04 PM
@BlackBeltJones - i remember saying the Diamondback actor when they first announced this reboot. You stealin my thunder Jones lol
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/27/2018, 2:11 PM
@MrCamw1 - I'll cut you in 50 percent when the profits come in haha
MrCamw1
MrCamw1 - 11/27/2018, 2:24 PM
@BlackBeltJones - thats real generous of you man. Proceed!!! Hahaha
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