{"id":17188,"date":"2020-02-29T04:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2020-02-29T04:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T04:04:50","slug":"candyman-trailers-subtle-nods-to-the-horror-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=17188","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Candyman&#039; Trailer&#039;s Subtle Nods to the Horror Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article1098_slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article1098_slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 6px\">The appearance of franchise star Vanessa Williams suggests that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is playing the baby from the 1992 film.<br \/>\nUniversal on Thursday debuted the highly anticipated first trailer for Candyman, satisfying the sweet tooth of horror fans everywhere.<br \/>\nDirected by Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) and written Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, the upcoming film is a \u201cspiritual sequel\u201d to Bernard Rose\u2019s cult classic Candyman (1992), itself based on the short story \u201cThe Forbidden\u201d by Clive Barker. Since the film\u2019s announcement in 2018, there has been speculation over how closely the new effort would be tied to the original, and whether Tony Todd, who brought life to the role with an iconic performance in the original movie and two sequels, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) and Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999), would have a role in this latest incarnation. While the new trailer doesn\u2019t show off the actor, it does highlight a number of connections to the original film along with a compelling new focus.\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;padding-top: 10px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Videos<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_14420\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9e0tSOxGm1E?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyTodd54?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by TonyTodd54<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;padding-top: 10px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Style to wear<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id='sa_invalid_postid'>Slide Anything shortcode error: A valid ID has not been provided<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of franchise star Vanessa Williams suggests that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is playing the baby from the 1992 film.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}