(Left) Executive Producer/Director Mike Flanagan on the set of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’ Photo: Eike Schroter/Netflix © 2023. (Right) Sissy Spacek in ‘Carrie’. Photo: United Artists.
Preview:
- Mike Flanagan will adapt ‘Carrie’ for TV.
- It’ll be his latest horror series.
- Stephen King’s book was published in 1974.
Mike Flanagan has built himself quite the reputation for adapting the works of Stephen King to screens and making some great TV series in the horror/thriller realm. So it seems natural that for the first planned series under his recent deal with Amazon, would combine the two.
Deadline reports that the filmmaker, who has spent the last few years seeing success with the likes of ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ ‘Midnight Mass’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ for Netflix, is now taking aim at Prime Video and has set up a TV version of King’s ‘Carrie.’
What’s the story of ‘Carrie’?
Sissy Spacek in ‘Carrie’. Photo: United Artists.
King’s 1974 novel put the young author on the map, and also bolstered his worth as a writer whose genre storytelling was most translatable to the big screen.
In 1976, Brian De Palma was the first director to adapt King’s coming of age story of a young, sheltered girl (Sissy Spacek) with a domineering mother whose bullying caused unimaginable blood-soaked consequences at her school’s prom due to her hyperkinetic powers.
John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt co-starred in the movie, which was a big success.
Since then, we’ve seen a TV movie, a 1999 sequel called ‘The Rage: Carrie II’ and a 2013 remake which saw Chloë Grace Moretz take over the title role.
Flanagan’s version would tell the story across eight episodes.
What other Stephen King adaptations are headed our way?
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Captain Benjamin “Ben” Richards in ‘The Running Man.’
King is one of the most adapted authors out there –– his work has led to some excellent movies and TV shows (and a few stinkers).
Flanagan himself has brought us the movies such as ‘Doctor Sleep,’ the sequel to King’s ‘The Shining,’ and ‘Gerald’s Game.’
He currently has ‘The Life of Chuck,’ starring Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill, adapted from King’s 2020 novella, receiving praise at festival runs and is being set for a 2025 release.
Elsewhere, Edgar Wright is soon to shoot a new adaptation of ‘The Running Man,’ Francis Lawrence has shot ‘The Long Walk’ and ‘Longlegs’ Osgood Perkins will bring us ‘The Monkey’ next year.
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When will the new ‘Carrie’ series be on screens?
Flanagan is only now kicking off the writing process for this one, so we wouldn’t expect ‘Carrie’ to arrive on our TV screens much before 2026.
(L to R) Executive Producer/Director Mike Flanagan, Executive Producer/Director Michael Fimognari in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’ Photo: Eike Schroter/Netflix © 2023.