Stephen King’s lengthy and massively profitable profession as a novelist started with 1974’s Carrie, which was was 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 creating a Carrie TV collection for Amazon MGM Studios. Flanagan isn’t any stranger to King variations; his final three movies as a director had been all tailored from King’s work — Gerald’s Recreation, Physician Sleep, and the current The Lifetime of Chuck.
Based on 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 along with her domineering mom. After her father’s sudden and premature dying, 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 shall 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 serious 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 among the finest Stephen King variations in historical past.
Many of the different Carries haven’t left fairly that giant, or as optimistic of an affect. 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 large a reputation as exists on the 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 end up properly.
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