We just lately realized that Mike Flanagan is creating one other Stephen King venture with an eight-episode collection adaptation of Carrie for Amazon’s Prime Video.
Carrie tells the story of a shy and awkward highschool woman, Carrie White, who’s relentlessly bullied by her classmates and suffering from her fanatically spiritual mom, Margaret.
As she goes by means of this and is feeling remoted and misunderstood, Carrie discovers that she has telekinetic powers.
When a merciless prank is performed on her on the faculty’s promenade, Carrie snaps, unleashing her pent-up rage and utilizing her powers to actual a devastating and lethal revenge on her tormentors and the city.
The story’s climactic promenade scene is well probably the most iconic in horror literature and films.
This story has been tailored a couple of instances already and when requested in an interview with CinemaBlend why he needed to retell this story once more, Flanagan mentioned:
“One of many solely questions I had when it was first placed on the desk was ‘Why?’, and if I could not reply ‘Why do that once more?’ for myself, then there was no level in pursuing the venture. It is the identical muscle.
“I’ll say that it is the identical feeling I had after we approached The Flip of the Screw, which had been tailored dozens of instances. And it is like, ‘Okay, how can we do that fully otherwise?’”
When requested about what Stephen King considered the story being retold once more Flanagan mentioned: “His first query was additionally mine. … Steve’s first response was, ‘Why try this once more?’”
Properly, the filmmaker has a course that he desires to take the story that isn’t going to retread something that’s come earlier than. When teasing the venture, he mentioned:
“I can not spoil our strategy to Carrie solely to reassure individuals we aren’t retreading the identical story. It’s positively a brand new strategy to the fabric, and one which Stephen King is worked up about which can be vital to me.”
When speaking about how he earned that enthusiasm from King, he mentioned if he didn’t get King enthusiastic about it, he wouldn’t have carried out it.
“It has been carried out and it has been carried out superbly, arguably completely by De Palma after which carried out once more for ‘causes.’, Why do it once more now?
“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 mentioned, ‘Okay, if he is excited, then we must always do that.’ However in any other case I would not have carried out it. … It will likely be a really nice shock for followers.”
I assume that this can be a recent tackle the story and when teasing his preliminary thought for the venture, Flanagan advised MovieWeb:
“Carrie White strolling by means of a steel detector is attention-grabbing to me. Carrie White with social media. The enduring scene within the locker room may be very completely different when individuals have telephones of their palms.
“In order that was the primary germ of an thought, like, there’s room for this to really have rather a lot to say that is very related. And I can not spoil the adjustments that we made with a purpose to type of discover a story that felt prefer it wanted to be advised. However we made some fairly substantial adjustments.”
Flanagan is a hell of an important storyteller and he’s a filmmaker that has an understanding of King’s work that a number of filmmakers don’t have, and I’m excited to see what his imaginative and prescient for this story can be as he brings it to life as a collection.
