The Release of Jordan Peele's Horror Film CANDYMAN Has Been Pushed to Fall
Jordan Peele’s Candyman reboot was originally supposed to be released on June 12th, but Universal Pictures has announced that they’ve pushed the release date out to September 25th, 2020. This move shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone because every studio is shifting around release dates for their films!
Universal has already pushed three major movies including The Minions: Rise of Gru, which is being released on July 2, 2021; Fast 9, which is coming out on April 21st, 2021; and Trolls World Tour, which is being released on Digital on April 10th.
Candyman was directed by Nia DaCosta (Little Woods), and it “unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman.” Here’s the synopsis:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. 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 girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.
With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind 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 a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Tony Todd will also appear in the movie. It’s still unclear how long movie theaters will remain closed. But they have to be reopened at some point! Right? It’s going to be really strange if we end up going through the summer without movies.