The film recently added Aquaman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the lead role as an artist who becomes obsessed with the legend of the serial killer.
The Hollywood Reporter has brought word that If Beale Street Could Talk star Teyonah Parris has entered negotiations with MGM to star in the upcoming spiritual sequel to the 1992 cult horror classic Candyman from producer Jordan Peele (Get Out).
MGM will produce and finance Candyman with Universal handling domestic theatrical distribution.
The film, a “spiritual sequel” to the original, returns to the neighborhood where the legend began, the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.