CANDYMAN: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Revealed in Full Costume?

The new cover of Total Film magazine sports a fresh look at director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in costume.

Check them out below.

I guess this confirms Abdul-Mateen II will be taking over the role of the titular hook-handed murder-ghost from Tony Todd at some point.

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Official synopsis:

For as long as the 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 the present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, a visual artist named Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, a gallery director named Brianna Cartwright, moved into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by the upwardly mobile millennials. With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind the 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.

Candyman is set to haunt theaters on October 16, 2020.

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