In the event you’ve been wanting somebody to take one other stab at Stephen King’s Carrie, you are in luck, as The Haunting of Hill Home creator Mike Flanagan is engaged on a TV adaptation.
There have been a number of movie variations of the traditional Stephen King horror novel Carrie over time, clearly kicking off with the beloved 1976 adaptation from Brian De Palma. However now, as initially reported by Selection, a TV collection adaptation from Mike Flanagan and Amazon is within the works, a director who’s no stranger to King’s works – he is most notably labored on Physician Sleep, a follow-up to The Shining, however he additionally made Gerald’s Sport and simply this yr he helmed The Lifetime of Chuck, which is at present slated to be launched within the US in 2025.
In keeping with Selection, the collection logline describes it as 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 loss of life, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien panorama of public Excessive Faculty, a bullying scandal that shatters her neighborhood, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”
The present will apparently run for eight episodes (as a result of when is a streaming collection ever greater than 8-10 episodes), and in accordance with Deadline, a author’s room is already opening, so work is transferring forward rapidly on this one.
Not counting that one episode of Riverdale that form of tailored Carrie (although was truly primarily based on the musical), this present would be the fifth live-action outing of the character. Apart from the 1976 unique, there was additionally its 1999 sequel, the primary reboot in 2002, and the second reboot in 2013. Now we simply should see if Flanagan can convey it to a up to date viewers, however given his expertise with the horror style, he’ll in all probability do a fairly good job.
