Stephen King’s 1974 unique Carrie has already had three permutations within the closing 50 years, and now a fourth adaptation could maybe maybe per likelihood per likelihood be on the tactic. Misery maven Mike Flanagan is creating Carrie as a TV sequence for Amazon’s Prime Video.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon MGM Studios is producing the Carrie sequence as “a daring and well timed reimagining” of King’s epic. Inside the e-book and the earlier permutations, Carrie is a teenage girl whose existence has been dominated by her religiously fanatical mom. Carrie will be mercilessly teased by her fellow college students in faculty earlier than she discovers telekinetic powers that permit her to obtain vengeance on every one that wronged her.
Flanagan has beforehand directed characteristic motion pictures primarily based mostly on King’s Physician Sleep and Gerald’s Sport, as neatly as a result of the upcoming film The Lifetime of Chuck. Earlier to becoming a member of the Carrie remake, Flanagan signed on to obtain King’s The Darkish Tower as a Prime Video sequence, however the standing of that venture is not apparent. Flanagan additionally wrote and produced varied fright shows for Netflix together with The Haunting and Coronary heart of the evening Mass. Extra presently, Flanagan signed on to recount the subsequent Exorcist movie.
The distinctive Carrie film turned directed by Brian De Palma in 1976 with Sissy Spacek as a result of the lead persona. That spawned a se