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Sony Finds Sweets In 'Candyman' Franchise
Friday, August 15, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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This morning STYD reported that Sony, along with the original rights holders, are looking to remake Clive Barker's Candyman franchise, a rumor that has been circulating for a few weeks now. The site reports that the idea of bringing the "sweets to the sweet" back to the big screen is only at talks at this point, but it could still happen in the near future. While the site reports that one idea is to turn Candyman caucasion (why?), something we had heard a few weeks ago here at Bloody-Disgusting was that Tony Todd had actually been approached to possibly (and I stress possibly) reprise his role as Candyman/Daniel Robitaille in the remake, which we found highly unlikely. Nothing is confirmed at this point, watch for developing news as it comes in.

A children's ghost story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit of the dead. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) laughs when she interviews college freshmen about their superstitions. But when she hears about Candyman a slave spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project she thinks she has a new twist for this thesis. Braving the gang-ridden territory to visit the site of a brutal murder Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist... until he appears igniting a string of terrifying tragic slayings. But the police don't believe in monsters and they charge Helen with the grisly crimes. Only one person can set her free: CANDYMAN.



Source: Shocktillyoudrop, Bloody-Disguting

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thedescent08
2:52pm, August 15, 2008

WHAT THE FUCK! WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING REMAKES NOWADAYS?!?!?!? THE ONLY SHIT AMERICANS CHURN OUT NOW ARE REMAKES AND SEQUELS. HAH THEY'LL FUCKING REMAKE SCREAM SOON AND THEY'LL REMAKE THE DESCENT TEN YEARS FROM NOW. stupid motherfuckers!


djdeathwish
2:55pm, August 15, 2008

I think its much too soon for this.


korollocke
3:03pm, August 15, 2008

fuck off with all the remakes! i loved candyman!


Evil_Flip
3:14pm, August 15, 2008

oh crap, I just vomited all over my laptop.


laobuddy4life2
3:17pm, August 15, 2008

i agree with thedecent08...No one can play Candyman better than Tony Todd


Chancedude
3:27pm, August 15, 2008

Candyman was classic. It still gives me the creeps to this day.


ziltoid the omniscient
3:29pm, August 15, 2008

All we gotta do is get Alexandre Aja to direct it, Platinum Dunes to produce it, and Bloody Disgusting to implement some nauseating popup ad concerning the film over every nook and cranny of the site, and you philistines will be sucking eachother's dicks waiting for it to come out.


Guywiththegun
3:40pm, August 15, 2008

Stop going to see them and they will stop. Its really simple. But yeah, pathetic.


apk420kane
3:40pm, August 15, 2008

this is fucking sad, Candyman isn't even 2 decades old and was perfect. Absolutely nothing can be improved by remaking this film...really sad. I thought that the writers strike was over?!?!?


BoredSeal
3:44pm, August 15, 2008

I think they should remake Transformers. It´s already 1 year old and remake could be more effective than original. ;)


whitewolf34
3:51pm, August 15, 2008

What is up with all the stupid remakes? It's enough to drive a person insane!!!!


shattered68
3:52pm, August 15, 2008

Isn't Sony pictures the studio in the business of PG-13 horror remakes? Prom Night, Hell Night, and Stepfather. Fuck a PG-13 remake of Candyman! Come to think of it, fuck ANY remake of Candyman.


horrorguy88
3:56pm, August 15, 2008

this movie is not that old at all. it was made in the 90s. Wow im sick of this.


www.myspace.com/fridaythe
4:01pm, August 15, 2008

ANOTHER FUCKING REMAKE! AGGHHHHHHHHH, GIVE IT UP HOLLYWOOD, YOU'RE SHIT!!!!


magnaderalpha
4:16pm, August 15, 2008

I know, this is kinda stretching it. Candyman is from the 90s. That wasn't too long ago. What's next, are they going to remake Saw and Cabin Fever? Seriously, they are getting too close to the 2000s with these remakes. Let's remake The Craft, The Faculty and Scream. Don't forget I Know What You Did Last Summer and Hostel. They ALL need remakes NOW! @_@


abe_the_cop
4:20pm, August 15, 2008

do you guys HAVE TO use puns all the time?


BloodyCape
4:20pm, August 15, 2008

sacrilege!


zombieslasher13
4:40pm, August 15, 2008

I've already told myself that Hollywood is going to remake every horror movie ever, but still when I hear another remake being planned I still get pissed off. Stop remaking all our movies and come up with something new and original already.


BrotherofTears
5:02pm, August 15, 2008

How about a new Candyman 3 instead? Candyman: Day of the Dead was a weak sequel, so instead of remaking the original, which isn't even 20 years old yet, they should do a new sequel instead.


IrvingWallace
5:08pm, August 15, 2008

NO. CANDYMAN is a classic! no more remakes! its not even that old! just rerelease it!


kR.I.P.t
5:09pm, August 15, 2008

NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!! I'm all up for the Friday the 13th and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake but this! Leave Candyman be. But if you want give us a Candyman 4. I woundn't mind seeing the hook and the bees back!


magnaderalpha
6:03pm, August 15, 2008

I agree, even though I can't stomach a NOES remake. I mean, it's not as jaw-dropping when they announce remakes to horror movies from the 70s and 80s. But, it DOES get attention when it's a remake of a movie from the 90s. Whereas a lot of younger fans might not remember(were babies) or weren't even born during the 70s and 80s, the 90s seems to be the general decade mostly everybody "modern" falls back on cause unless you were born in the late 90s, most teenagers and early 20-year olds DO remember the 90s fondly. Hence, there's more people out there ready to say, "Wait a minute, that movie isn't THAT old! Why are they remaking it?!". Also, look at the original Candyman. It was, IMO, one of the last great horror classic movies before horror became trendy in the mid-90s with MTV-Teen horror(Kevin Williamson-typed horror) which would branch off into modern PG-13 horror and overgore torture porn. I shudder to think WHO exactly they will get to play Candyman. Tony Todd captured the original chillingly well. He was an AWESOME horror villain, right up there with Jason, Freddy and Pinhead. They'll probably get Busta Rhymes for the remake.


johnny5
6:59pm, August 15, 2008

I'd rather they remake this movie than a Nightmare on Elm Street, however it's still disappointing news because we all know it's going to be a sh*t remake because 90% of remakes are like that. You guys were warned not to pay to see remakes years ago from people like Adam Green, and yet you'll still go see it and then bitch about it afterwards, not realising that you've persuaded the studios to make more profitable remakes, and that you wasted your money funding the Hollywood remake factory!!!


Nightmare 1919
8:06pm, August 15, 2008

cmon it was made in like 1992!! looks like remakes are heading into the 90's now :(


trizout
8:34pm, August 15, 2008

Speaking of remakes, I am in the process of remaking my life but they tell me I cannot become a fetus again. So now I am just gonna go rub one off.


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