Deadline stories that Amazon is transferring ahead with a Carrie sequence adaptation from Flanagan based mostly on Stephen King’s 1974 novel a few woman born with telekinetic powers. In addition to writing and showrunning the challenge, Flanagan will direct a collection of its eight episodes.
Flanagan, who connfirmed the information on his Bluesky web page at the moment, will even govt produce alongside Trevor Macy. No official casting bulletins have been made simply but, however actresses Summer H. Howell (Curse of Chucky) and Siena Agudong (Netflix’s Resident Evil) are reportedly in talks to painting Carrie White and cheerleader Sue Snell, respectively.
In an announcement concerning the challenge, Amazon MGM’s head of TV Vernon Sanders famous how Carrie “has withstood the check of time with continued cultural relevance.” That’s a optimistic manner of spinning the truth that there have been many Carrie variations (and a sequel) following Brian De Palma’s 1976 function starring Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, and Piper Laurie.
Though only a few of these movies have been particularly nice, Flanagan has a stable observe document adapting King’s classics, together with The Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game. Stretching Carrie’s story out over eight episodes will more likely to result in some surprising narrative modifications, however it’s all (in all probability) nonetheless going to go down in flames when the sequence in the end debuts.
