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Pre-Release Theories
Anthony
Anthony will become the next Candyman
- Self-explanatory; Anthony gets stung by a honeybee in the teaser trailer, one of the warning signs that the Candyman is close by. After he was stung, he later wears bandages around his right hand most likely because the wound became infected and was rotting away gradually until Anthony is forced to rip his hand off in the place of the Candyman's signature weapon.
- Sadly confirmed.
Anthony has a genetic link with Candyman.
Not necessarily his descendant, but a fairly strong genetic link nonetheless.- Jossed. Anthony is the baby from the first film.
Candyman will do with Anthony the same Freddy did with Jason in Freddy vs. Jason
- Gentrification is a major theme of the sequel. Because of it, Candyman's powers are lessening because he requires belief to keep himself in the physical realm. So, he will take possession of Anthony, likely recognizing him as the boy he tried to sacrifice in the original film, and takes possession of him so he could set him up as the fall guy for his murders.
Anthony will pull a Heroic Sacrifice to erase Candyman for good
- Realizing that Candyman's legend is what sustains his existence, Anthony manages to resist Candyman possessing him just long enough to destroy his art exhibit and the old candy factory—removing the last physical reminders of the legend and letting himself die in the attempt, taking Candyman with him and eclipsing his legend with a "crazy artist" story.
- Jossed. Anthony tries to do all these things, but ultimately is possessed by Candyman and dies anyway.
The Candyman will be revealed to not have been a single person but an entity that absorbs their stories into its own
- Promotion for the film has featured other possible origins for Candyman, including a man with a false hand who gave out candy to children only to be killed by the police when falsely blamed for razor blades found in apples, another man falsely claimed to be a pedophile, and a man simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. It will be revealed that Candyman wasn't any one of those men but something that absorbs them into his own myth and legend, taking on pieces of them as the story is retold.
- Confirmed! Although Daniel is still suggested to be the first/king Candyman.
The film will end on a downer ending just like the first one
- Anthony will die just like Helen and become absorbed into the Candyman myth.
- Confirmed.
Helen Lyle will appear, with Virginia Madsen doing a Role Reprise for it
At the end of the first film she became an Urban Legend like Candyman, and it would be waste not to follow up on it.- Confirmed, since Madsen provides Helen's voice, even if she doesn't appear on screen.
The movie will be postponed because of COVID-19
Confirmed. The new release date for the film is now August 27th, 2021. The movie will be on Peacock or Amazon Prime
- Jossed. The movie is released in cinemas.
Post-Release Theories
She won't be blamed
The responding officers are going to find Brianna with her hands cuffed behind her back with no blood splatter from the slain officers nor any indication that she had a weapon. They'll also find the dead officers had fired multiple rounds at their assailant with no effect. They could just as easily conclude that someone else killed the officers and release Brianna without charging her. At that point, she could choose to either tell them the truth about the slain officers' actions or not. There might even be audio and video recordings from the other two marked units that would back her.