Stephen King's 'Carrie' to be adapted as new TV series
Stephen King’s classic supernatural horror novel Carrie is getting a TV adaptation at Amazon.
According to a report by Deadline, the film, which had its first film adaptation in 1976, is being developed as an eight-part TV series at Amazon MGM Studios.
The series will show a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public High School, a bullying scandal that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers,” its logline read, as per Variety.
Mike Flanagan—who helmed many horror series such as The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher—is set to be the writer, showrunner, and executive producer of the possible series. Also producing the project is Trevor Macy, who also worked with Flanagan in the horror series Doctor Sleep and the film Oculus, among others.
Carrie was King’s first novel published in 1974. It had a film adaptation two years later starring Sissy Spacek who played the title role, John Travolta, Piper Laurie, and Amy Irving.
It had a second film, The Rage: Carrie 2 which was released in 1999, followed by a TV film remake in 2002. It had another film remake in 2013 starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabrielle Wilde, and Ansel Elgort, among others.