Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ Is Getting a TV Series

Stephen King’s lengthy and massively profitable profession as a novelist started with 1974’s Carrie, which was changed into successful 1976 film, a 1999 sequel, a 2002 TV remake, a 2013 big-screen remake, and an infamously disastrous 1988 Broadway musical.

Subsequent up: A tv collection.

Mike Flanagan is reportedly growing a Carrie TV collection for Amazon MGM Studios. Flanagan isn’t any stranger to King variations; his final three movies as a director have been all tailored from King’s work — Gerald’s Recreation, Physician Sleep, and the latest The Lifetime of Chuck.

In response to Selection, right here is the official synopsis for Flanagan’s Carrie:

[a] daring and well timed reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion together 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.

Flanagan can be author, producer, and showrunner on the collection.

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The unique Carrie movie helped set up director Brian De Palma as a significant younger Hollywood director. (It additionally featured an early position from actress Sissy Spacek, who scored an an Academy Award nomination for the position.) It stays a defining horror movie of the Nineteen Seventies, and the most effective Stephen King variations in historical past.

Many of the different Carries haven’t left fairly that enormous, or as optimistic of an impression. The Rage: Carrie 2 was a flop, whereas 2013’s Carrie (starring Chloë Grace Moretz within the title position) was a modest hit that was largely forgotten earlier than too lengthy. However Flanagan is about as massive a reputation as exists on this planet of streaming horror reveals, due to stuff like The Haunting of Hill Home and The Fall of the Home of Usher. He’s additionally superb at adapting Stephen King. So this might prove effectively.