![]() Stuff and every once in a while they will come to me with a piece that In Candyman or Gods and Monsters - and they will say, 'Will you comeĪnd watch over 'x' and 'y'?' So Joe and Renee read through a lot of A lot ofĪgents come to us especially after our success - my executive producing Unfortunately we can't deal with unsolicited materials cause Looking over the proposals we get, the ideas that people, agents, send This year hasīeen an incredibly busy year. "It was brought to me by my team, by Joe and Renee. Or even 'Candyman 3.' There is a level of supernatural for sure, but To something like 'The Sixth Sense' to something like 'Urban Legend' That this project is a little too like other Urban Legends projects. Possible change of titles because I think that 'Bloody Mary' signifies This area of Urban Legends has been looked at rather closely of late.Īnd one of the things that I've been talking to people about is the ![]() "It's nice that Disney is allowing me to have my identity as theįrightmeister as well as somebody who's producing PG movies." Meetings back-to-back, and we sold it by Tuesday evening to Disney. My team, Renee RosenĪnd Joe Daley, went out with Silvio last Monday and Tuesday and took Up with an outline that we worked on together. "We went to Silvio Horta with an idea based on the article, and he came Lore to create something quite remarkable. Particularly the homeless and poor, and how their imaginations haveĬooked up a curious mixture of urban legend, Catholicism and childhood "There was an article in the Miami New Times by journalist Lynda Edwards,Ĭalled 'Myths Over Miami.' It was about the children of the city, Is going to be suspenseful and scary, but it's an aesthetic decision "We're not responding to the pressure coming out of Washington. Man, I just don't make those kinds of pictures anymore. "This is not going to be a Hellraiser or a Candyman as a 48 year-old Wanted to do was to use the conventions of urban myth to express our They are living through the reality of social evils and abuse. Homeless kids are living in a world that's on that borderline, because Something has you really wondering, 'Is it real, or isn't it?'. There he befriends a group of children whose visions of demons seeping Young man forced to do community service at a homeless shelter in Miami. The storyline for the planned movie centres on a If you look in the mirror and say his name thirteen times, he'llīILLY : OK.Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman,Ĭandyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, he has a hook jammed in the bloody stump. They talk in whispers.ĬLARA : His right hand is sawn off. The medicine cabinet, arms around each other. Involve invoking her spirit by calling her name thirteen times beforeĪ mirror - just as in this draft screenplay for Candyman.īilly and Clara regard their reflections in the mirrored door of Like any good urban legend, it moulds itself to it's teller and it'sĪudience, but many of the tales based on the story of Mary Worth Whose face was so badly scarred that her spirit seeks vengeance by Queen of Scots! The name Mary Worth recurrs fairly often as a character Might come across her in the guise of Mary Whales or even Mary There's nothing new about the legend of Bloody Mary - you Souls of children and lives in the supernatural plane between reality ![]() Legend) concentrates on one particular urban legend, that of Bloody Mary,Ī monstrous, Everglades-based, vengeful bogeywoman who snatches the The screenplay, written by Silvio Horta (Urban Studio and hopes were raised for pre-production to start in 2004, but no sign of it just yet, and the 'Bloody Mary' which wasĬreated as the third in the Urban Legend series was unconnected with the Barker project. By the summer of 2003, it looked like a home had been found for the movie with a small Two years on from that deal, after lingering at Touchstone, the movie wasĭropped - although Barker insisted that the project Legends told and retold in the homeless shelters of South Florida, and Announced mid-September 2000, Barker and Seraphim Films signedĪ deal with Disney's Touchstone Pictures to produce a movie inspired byĪ 1997 non-fiction article, 'Myths Over Miami', written by Lynda Edwards.
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