Serving as a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 horror pic of the same name, “Candyman” follows visual artist Anthony McCoy , as they move into the newly gentrified Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago.
Written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld and DaCosta, the film also stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Brianna’s brother Troy Cartwright, Domingo as Cabrini old-timer William Burke, Tony Todd as Daniel Robitaille/Candyman and Vanessa Estelle Williams as Anthony’s mother Anne-Marie McCoy.
“We made ‘Candyman’ to be seen in theaters,” DaCosta wrote on Twitter.