Candyman -- director Nia DaCosta's spiritual sequel to Bernard Rose's 1992 horror film of the same name -- has been hit with another delay, and will now arrive in theaters sometime next year.
According to Deadline, Candyman has lost its Oct. 16 premiere date as studios continue to reshuffle their release slates. The film is now slated to arrive in 2021, though a specific release date is not available at this time. This marks the third time Candyman has been delayed. The film was originally slated to release in theaters earlier this year on June 12 before being pushed back to Sept. 25. It was then delayed again to Oct. 16.
Per the official synopsis for Candyman,
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 reprise his role as the eponymous hook-handed killer, reprising his role from the original film, which was based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker.
Directed by Nia DaCosta from a script by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld and DaCosta, Candyman stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Vanessa A. Williams, Rebecca Spence, Cassie Kramer and Tony Todd. The film arrives in theaters sometime in 2021.