ShockTillYouDrop.com has exclusively learned that Sony Pictures is eyeing a remake of Bernard Rose’s Clive Barker adaptation, Candyman. Candyman was made famous by actor Tony Todd, who appeared in the first film in 1992 and the 1995 sequel Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh and the 1999 third, straight-to-video release Candyman: Day of the Dead. The original starred Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley and Kasi Lemmons. In the films, according to legend, anyone who looks into a mirror and chants his name five times will summon him, but at the cost of his or her own life.
