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Don’t say his name.
This summer, Oscar® winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman. Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directs this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic.
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.
Original Release
08/25/2021
US Release
08/27/2021
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | Anthony McCoy |
Teyonah Parris | Brianna Cartwright |
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett | Troy Cartwright |
Colman Domingo | William Burke |
Kyle Kaminsky | Grady Smith / Grady Greenberg |
Vanessa Williams | Anne-Marie McCoy |
Brian King | Clive Privler |
Miriam Moss | Jerrika / Jerrica Cooper |
Rebecca Spence | Finley Stephens |
Carl Clemons-Hopkins | Jameson |
Directors
Writers
Bernard Rose, Clive Barker, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | Anthony McCoy |
Teyonah Parris | Brianna Cartwright |
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett | Troy Cartwright |
Colman Domingo | William Burke |
Kyle Kaminsky | Grady Smith / Grady Greenberg |
Vanessa Williams | Anne-Marie McCoy |
Brian King | Clive Privler |
Miriam Moss | Jerrika / Jerrica Cooper |
Rebecca Spence | Finley Stephens |
Carl Clemons-Hopkins | Jameson |
Christiana Clark | Danielle Harrington |
Michael Hargrove | Sherman Fields / Candyman |
Rodney L Jones III | Billy |
Heidi Grace Engerman | Haley Gulick / Haley |
Ireon Roach | Trina |
Breanna Lind | Annika |
Malic White | Boof |
Sarah Wisterman | Celine |
Sarah Lo | Samantha |
Mark Montgomery | Detective Lipez |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jason Cloth | Executive Producer |
Aaron L. Gilbert | Executive Producer |
David Kern | Executive Producer |
Jordan Peele | Producer |
Win Rosenfeld | Producer |
Manual Cinema | Producer |
Ian Cooper | Producer |
Brittany Klesic | Producer |
Daniel F. Larson | Producer |