Collider and SuperBroMovies are reporting that Lakeith Stanfield (“Sorry to Bother You,” “Atlanta”) is in talks to play the protagonist in producer Jordan Peele’s upcoming ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 1992 horror classic “Candyman” for MGM.
Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) is directing from a script co-written by Peele and his MonkeyPaw Productions partner Win Rosenfield. MGM is slated to release the new Candyman movie on June 12, 2020.
Stanfield is in talks to play Anthony, a young man in Chicago who is researching the urban legend known simply as Candyman. It’s not long before people around him start dying.
Essentially Stanfield is this version’s stand-in for Virginia Madsen’s grad student Helen in the first film adaptation of the Clive Barker work. Tony Todd played the titular hook-handed villain role in the original and there’s yet to be any casting rumors regarding the role for this outing. The original short story was written by horror maestro Clive Barker, and Peele said the 1992 movie was “a landmark film for black representation in the horror genre.”
Best known for playing Darius on FX’s Atlanta, as well as his supporting role in Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, Stanfield recently starred in Boots Riley‘s directorial debut Sorry to Bother You, and will soon be seen alongside Gina Rodriguez in Netflix’s rom-com Someone Great. Upcoming projects include Rian Johnson‘s murder mystery Knives Out with Daniel Craig as well as the Safdie brothers’ thriller Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler.
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