Of all of the upcoming Stephen King motion pictures and TV reveals — and it’s no small quantity, with upwards of six new diversifications in 2025 alongside — maybe essentially the most left-field venture is Mike Flanagan’s upcoming streaming collection based mostly on the prolific creator’s first revealed novel, Carrie. Its sudden nature stems not from its creator, as Flanagan already tailored Gerald’s Sport for Netflix and even wowed King together with his Physician Sleep characteristic.
Relatively, it’s that Carrie has a historical past of prior diversifications, with Brian De Palma’s 1978 hit arguably being the one needed iteration of all of them, boasting two Oscar nominations. However for Mike Flanagan to hand-pick that to be his third impending King adaptation behind the non-horror characteristic The Lifetime of Chuck and his Darkish Tower collection, it will possibly solely imply he’s bought the magic components for updating Carrie White’s torment for immediately’s audiences with Amazon Prime subscriptions.
As a diehard followers of each Mike Flanagan and Stephen King, few issues tickle my horror fancy like new particulars about their shared conquests, so I’ll be utilizing each my telekinetic powers and my conventional studying and listening skills to maintain observe of any new particulars that begin dripping out of the Bucket Of Moist And Sticky Updates. It seems like pig blood, however it’s simply data.
When Is Carrie’s Launch Date?
Though it’s technically been six months or so since followers first discovered about Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation plans, progress hasn’t precisely been full-steam forward behind the scenes simply but, because the filmmaker by no means simply has one plate spinning at any given second. He’s typically bouncing from one venture to the subsequent, however with Lifetime of Chuck set for its launch, he’ll hopefully now have extra time to deal with Carrie.
However given he’s additionally engaged on a Darkish Tower TV present and a brand new cinematic chapter inside the Exorcist franchise, it’s exhausting to know when manufacturing will kick off in earnest. However when it does, count on one other 9 months to a yr of ready earlier than Margaret White will attempt to put us all within the closet.
The Carrie Streaming Sequence’ Forged
After months of relative silence concerning the growing collection, April 2025 is when Prime Video confirmed a collection order for Carrie. Although not earlier than unconfirmed Carrie casting studies steered frequent Mike Flanagan collaborator Samantha Sloyan was within the working to play Margaret White, with Hereditary breakout actress Milly Shapiro rumored for the titular teen function. As wildly excited as I used to be to learn these supposed choices, neither appears to have panned out, with one other actress rising up because the likeliest alternative.
Summer time H. Howell as Carrie White (Not But Confirmed)
Summer time H. Howell made her on-brand appearing debut in 2013’s Curse of Chucky, following it up with 2017’s Cult of Chucky, a job in my TV horror all-timer Channel Zero, and a string of low-budget horrors with titles like The Midnight Man, Harland Manor and Spirit within the Blood. And she or he was maybe most just lately seen by the most individuals inside the forged of Netflix’s time-travel killer thriller Time Lower.
So from a genre-experience perspective, Howell is a pure sufficient option to be reportedly in conversations for a deal by which she would painting the troubled teenager. On the time of writing, nevertheless, the report from Selection has but to be absolutely confirmed by both Amazon MGM or Flanagan.
Siena Agudong as Sue Snell
On the flip facet of issues, younger actress Siena Agudong’s profession was cemented by means of fare for youthful viewers, corresponding to Nickelodeon’s Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Daybreak and Star Falls, the Disney Channel Unique Film Upside-Down Magic, and Netflix’s No Good Nick (with fellow former youngster stars Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin). She extra just lately embraced horror style as younger Billy Wesker in Netflix’s short-lived Resident Evil collection, but in addition heads up Tubi’s romantic sports activities dramedy Sidelined: The QB and Me and its upcoming sequel.
As somebody who portrays characters viewers are supposed to facet with and revel in, Agudong is a strong option to painting Sue Snell, a fellow classmate of who’s initially drawn to becoming a member of others’ bullying ways, however finally turns into one thing nearer to an ally the misunderstood and mistreated Carrie.
Different Forged Members TBD
What Mike Flanagan’s Carrie Will Be About
Right here within the earliest days of the venture’s existence, we’re nonetheless a methods away from studying all of the intricacies of how Mike Flanagan & Co. can be adapting, increasing and updating the occasions from Stephen King’s novel, which can doubtless be turning 52 years previous earlier than the collection hits Prime Video. However for now, we do have this official collection synopsis to go on, which roughly adheres to the core plotting of the novel and subsequent movie:
A daring and well timed reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion along with her domineering mom. After her father’s sudden and premature loss of life, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien panorama of public Excessive College, a bullying scandal that shatters her neighborhood, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.
That every one tracks with what we all know of the character thus far, and given Flanagan’s personal non secular upbringing and strategy to depicting faith in his works, it may be assumed that Margaret White will not stray too removed from the Bible along with her domineering nature. However it’s doubtless that the well timed strategy will permit the artistic group to take liberties with different particulars, with know-how nearly essentially being added in as one other type of dangerous bullying.
This is what Mike Flanagan advised CinemaBlend about his strategy to returning to Carrie’s story:
I can not spoil our strategy to Carrie solely to reassure folks we aren’t retreading the identical story. It’s undoubtedly a brand new strategy to the fabric, and one which Stephen King is worked up about which can also be necessary to me. . . . And so when he went by means of the proposal that I put collectively for it, his response was, oh, that is truly very thrilling to him. After which I stated, ‘Okay, if he is excited, then we must always do that.’ However in any other case I would not have completed it.
If it bought the King of Horror’s approval after he was initially hesitant to present his straightforward blessing, then I believe Mike Flanagan’s bought one thing high quality cooking.
The place To Stream Earlier Carrie Diversifications
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TITLE |
SERVICE |
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Carrie (1978) |
Max |
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The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) |
Tubi, MGM+ |
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Carrie (2002 TV Film) |
Tubi, MGM+ |
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Carrie (2013) |
Max |
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Riverdale’s “A Night time To Bear in mind” (Season 2 Musical Episode Tribute To Carrie: The Musical) |
Netflix |
Keep tuned into the hive thoughts for extra updates on Mike Flanagan’s Carrie collection, and all the time suppose twice after which a 3rd time earlier than you try and make enjoyable of somebody simply because they appear to be they will not use telekinetic skills to blow up close by buildings.