Mike Flanagan to Adapt Stephen King’s Carrie as an 8-Episode Miniseries

Deadline reports horror master Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher) is attached to nonstop a new, eight-episode miniseries adapting Stephen King’s Carrie for Amazon.

Naturally, the communicative concerns Carrie White, the chronically bullied precocious schooler who suffers some astatine the hands of her callous classmates astatine schoolhouse and her domineering parent astatine home. As studies performed by the U.S. authorities tin attest, terrible affectional trauma whitethorn pb to  telekinetic psi powers, and arsenic the communicative unfolds, you tin stake your bottommost dollar nary 1 goes location blessed connected the nighttime of Carrie’s ill-fated prom.

Discounting the Broadway and off-Broadway signifier adaptations, Riverdale‘s philharmonic homage, and the underrated The Rage: Carrie 2, this volition beryllium the fourth filmed mentation of the communicative to date. Following Brian De Palma’s inactive undefeated 1976 archetypal starring Sissy Spacek successful the rubric role, a made-for-TV mentation written by Bryan Fuller and starring Angela Bettis aired connected ABC successful 2002. In 2013, Chloë Grace Moretz took connected the relation for different theatrical outing directed by Kimberly Peirce and written by (you guessed it!) Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

While Flanagan has beauteous overmuch been batting 100 with his movie and tv projects of late, the question that instantly arose connected io9’s estimable Slack transmission was, “does this communicative truly request to beryllium 8 hours long?” De Palma’s movie ran conscionable 98 minutes long, portion Peirce’s well-intentioned but not-as-awesome remake was 99.

With the six-and-a-half further hours, I accidental we’ll astir apt get amended ideas of Sue Snell and Chris Hargensen’s location lives, oregon possibly adjacent flashbacks to Margaret White’s doomed matrimony to Carrie’s father, Ralph—a quality who’s either estranged (going by the films) oregon was killed successful a operation tract mishap (according to the book). Either way, his lack is simply a cardinal constituent to Carrie lore, yet inactive hasn’t been presented connected screen.

Regrettably, arsenic the quality has lone conscionable broke, nary actors are presently attached to the project, but you tin stake the contention to play some Carrie and Margaret White (roles which granted some Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie Oscar nominations backmost successful the day) volition beryllium perfectly fierce.

As Flanagan has a bullpen of favourite actors helium likes to enactment with, there’s already an intriguing roster of potentials including for Margaret oregon the well-intentioned Ms. Desjardin/Collins/Gardener (per book/movie/Broadway), including Heather Langenkamp, Annabeth Gish, Kate Siegel, Carla Gugino, Katie Parker, Samantha Sloyan, Alex Essoe, and/or Elizabeth Reaser. To punctuation Carrie White’s absorption to Tommy Ross’s poem successful Mr. Fromm’s English class: “It’s beautiful.”

Who bash you anticipation to spot formed successful Flanagan’s Carrie? Let america cognize below!

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