 What is going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overlord here So production began a few days ago on Jordan Peele's upcoming remake or reboot slash spiritual sequel to The 1992 classic horror film Candyman now I want to kind of get into some details regarding the Plot what I think the movie is going to do Give some casting information. So let's just jump right on into it I think first words started coming out about this project in late 2017 or early 2018 Right around the time when Jordan Peele was about to start promotions for Us which came out earlier this year But he is attached on as one of the co-writers. He's also Producing it through his monkey paw production company which produced his two well-received horror films get out in us The cast for the upcoming Candyman film includes Yaha Abdul Mateen Tiani Paris Tony Todd and Two other Stuart Stuart Jarrett. I believe also recently just joined the film and one other person joined in as well I know when Rosenfold or when Rosenfield who is also attached to the monkey paw production company That Peele is a part of he is also co-writing the script along with Peele This is kind of right in his ballgame Speaking about Jordan Peele. This is right up his alley because he's released two films that don't really deal heavily with race As opposed I would say get out there more with the race than us But he's released two movies that are very controversial and they talk about They're basically two social commentary films thrillers of sorts horror thrillers I believe that what we are going to get here is a loosely attached continuation to the 1992 film because some of the character we carried information came out about the film of months ago and LeKeefe Stanfield or I hope I'm not saying his name wrong LeKeefe Stanfield who was one of the cast members for Get out. He was the person that got abducted in the very beginning of the film spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie I apologize but he was one of the first he was the first person that got abducted and We found out that he was joining the film and a lot of people Were speculating because his character name was Anthony now to get into some details about the original film the original candy man from 1992 start Tony Todd as the titular villain and Virginia Lyle I think that's her name Basically, it's centered on a graduate student two graduate students specifically Virginia Lyle's character Helen They were studying urban legends and trying to do a thesis for their graduate paper And that's when they came that's when they learned about the legend of candy man decide to do their paper on that and his his ties to the Cabrini Green apartment complexes or something of that effect in the Chicago area and they come to find out how real this Entice he actually is and they learn his backstory candy man was a He was the son of a slave. I believe son of a slave who was a Very successful artist, but he was attacked by a mob When he fell in love with a white woman Which then led to him returning in the afterlife as this vengeful spirit hell been on revenge so In my honest opinion, I feel that what is happening here getting back to LaKeith LaKeith is playing a character called Anthony now at the end of the original film and in the original film There was a baby in it named Anthony. He was a young infant at the time of And Heather or Helen Helen the character that candy man was after primarily She saved this baby from the grasp of candy man towards the end of the film And I feel that now that's who LaKeith Stanfield is playing I feel like this is the same Anthony all grown up He's developed some sort of interest in candy man because the character description said he's a bit of an artist similar To how candy man was an artist in his life. I feel like that's where the connection to the original film is Link I feel like that's the gonna be the thing that ties it into the original film But then from there it's gonna do its own thing But then of course this could just be a character name That's Anthony in reference to the movie which featured a character of the same name And this is supposed to be a reboot of sorts, but then they're saying it's a spiritual sequel Getting into something else the fact that they did mention of that Another cast member who was casted in the film he was announced to be in the film He was recently a part of the Recent film us. He was the father at the beginning of the movie. Yaha Abdul Mateen He is playing a he we don't know what character he's playing But speculation started he would be playing candy man But they now was quickly shot down by Nia DeCosta who is on board to direct the film Jordan Peele isn't directing this project But I'm assuming he's going to be guiding her along the way, but I I think she's a relatively new filmmaker new director of sorts, but speculation began that Yaha was replacing Tony Todd's character and Reports came out. She quickly shot that down. So now we don't know exactly what is happening here so it could be possible that Yaha is portraying a character that Suffered the same fate or something similar to Candy Man and This might be a revamped Spirit in the Cabrini Green area because they're also in time. They're shooting the entire film that's coming out next year In June the film is set to come out in June the entire film is currently being shot in the Chicago area. I think it's being shot around that same Cabrini Green area and The character That Yaha is playing is not the same Candy Man that Tony Todd portrayed and we have Tony Todd back in the mix So it's kind of a iffy situation. We were not sure what's happening, but we're still interested because what is going on Is Tony Todd reprising his role? What is Yaha's character? Is it a character of sorts that's similar to Candy Man? Is he Candy Man's like? Right hand is he Candy Man's partner? Are they working together now? Like there's so many questions, but with Jordan Peele involved I'm very confident that this will be a successful follow-up to a standout film from 1992 That has a bit of a cult following. I'm not saying this one's the best films ever Uh, but it does have a cult following and I think it's I think it's heavily underrated Due to the time period that it came out in but I'm really looking forward to it And what do you guys think about this? 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