Mike Flanagan has added one more Stephen King adaptation to his record of in-the-works initiatives. The newest? He’s going all the best way again to the start of the horror maestro’s literary profession with Carrie.
Flanagan might be creating an eight-episode collection for Amazon based mostly on King’s career-making 1974 novel, which has been tailored to display screen a number of occasions, however not as an episodic TV collection.
The collection has gotten the official inexperienced mild from the streaming service. In a press release, Amazon MGM Studios head Vernon Sanders mentioned, “Carrie is an iconic story that has withstood the check of time with continued cultural relevance. With Mike Flanagan on the helm… this provocative collection is certain to captivate our international prospects.”
So what’s there to know up to now about this new Carrie adaptation collection? Right here’s a glance.
When will Carrie be launched?
It’s unknown at the moment when Mike Flangan’s new imaginative and prescient of Carrie will premiere, however we do know that it’s anticipated to be eight episodes and debut on Amazon Prime Video as a part of the auteur’s take care of that streamer. It’s reportedly set to start manufacturing in the summertime of 2025.
Who will star in Carrie?
No solid members have been formally introduced but for Carrie, however there are some reported contenders for the massive position. For the position of Carrie, Selection stories that Summer time H. Howell is in negotiations for the position, and the character Sue Snell might be performed by Siena Agudong.
In the meantime, Deadline stories that Matthew Lillard is in talks to play an unspecified position within the collection as effectively after he collaborated with Flanagan in his adaptation of King’s The Lifetime of Chuck.
Plus, followers of Flanagan’s work will already know to anticipate no less than some members of the so-called Flanaverse (that’s, the collective of actors who regularly seem in his works) to return for a number of the roles. It’s actually not exhausting to check Samantha Sloyan bringing some extra of that self-righteous zealotry from Midnight Mass to a job as Carrie’s mom or Bly Manor child-star-turned-teen Benjamin Evan Ainsworth being a creepy nemesis to Carrie. That’s simply hypothesis, in fact, and followers should anticipate any official casting bulletins to search out out for positive. What we do know is that Flanagan will government produce alongside Trevor Macy.
The place does this story match into the Carrie-verse?
Earlier diversifications of Carrie embody, maybe most famously, Brian de Palma’s 1976 adaptation of the novel that includes Sissy Spacek within the titular position, the 1999 horror sequel The Rage: Carrie 2, the 2002 TV film with Angela Bettis and Patricia Clarkson, and the 2013 movie that includes Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore as Carrie and her mom. This seems to haven’t any relation to any of these prior diversifications and is as a substitute a recent tackle the novel.
The logline from Amazon reads, “The collection is 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 Faculty, a bullying scandal that shatters her neighborhood, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”
What else is there to learn about Carrie?
Maybe a very powerful factor to learn about this adaptation at the moment is that Flanagan has confirmed to be one of many foremost adapters of King’s properties of all time — particularly within the fashionable period. Flanagan beforehand tailored Gerald’s Sport, Physician Sleep, and The Lifetime of Chuck to nice acclaim and can be within the technique of adapting the creator’s magnum opus, The Darkish Tower. In different phrases, this adaptation is clearly already in good arms.