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10 Directors to Watch: Nia DaCosta Remakes ‘Candyman’ for Jordan Peele

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Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorThough the original “Candyman” came out when she was only 2 years old, it had a big impact on Nia DaCosta.

As a kid she would play the game — saying his name in the mirror five times. So when she was asked to pitch herself as director to Jordan Peele’s Monkey Paw Prods.

for its upcoming “spiritual sequel,” DaCosta was more than ready.The new version expands on the mythology of the Candyman, a Black man tortured and murdered for loving a white woman, and further explores the violence brought upon people of color.

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