Carrie TV remake in the works from The Haunting of Hill House’s Mike Flanagan
There’s a new adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie in the works, but this time it’s in the form of an eight-episode TV series.
The show is in development at Amazon’s MGM Studios with writer Mike Flanagan leading the charge.
Carrie’s most famous screen version was the 1976 Brian De Palma movie starring Sissy Spacek in the titular role.
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The scene in which her tormentors pour a bucket of pig’s blood over her while onstage at the school dance is one of the most memorable moments in horror cinema.
Flanagan has cemented himself as something of a screen king of horror, having worked almost exclusively in the genre.
He is best known as the creator of The Haunting of Hill House, a Netflix semi-anthology franchise that also includes The Haunting of Bly Manor. He also made for the streamer Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher before leaving Netflix to sign a first-look deal with Amazon.
Flanagan, who was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the site of the infamous witch trials, is also a frequent adapter of King’s work. He wrote the screenplay for Doctor Sleep, a sequel to The Shining, as well as Gerald’s Game and The Life of Chuck. The latter premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won the people’s choice award.
Flanagan and his producing partner Trevor Macy also have the rights to King’s eight-part Dark Tower novels, which the filmmakers have been working to bring to the screen for at least a couple of years.
This in-development version of Carrie is not the first since the original film.
There was a Carrie sequel called The Rage: Carrie 2 released in 1999 which featured a character that was said to be Carrie’s half-sister in a plotline that aped the original.
There was also a 2002 TV movie remake and a 2013 movie directed by Kimberley Pierce (Boys Don’t Cry) and starring Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as her mother.
In 1988, King’s novel was adapted into a Broadway musical. It closed after 16 previews and five performances.
