Mike Flanagan is no stranger to adapting Stephen King’s works with projects like Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game, but now it looks like he’s ready to adapt one of King’s most infamous stories for Amazon Prime Video.
According to Deadline, Flanagan will be adapting Stephen King’s Carrie as an eight-episode series for Amazon. No further details have been revealed about the adaptation other than that it will be a “bold and timely reimagining”.
The original Carrie book by Stephen King was published back in 1974 and told the story of a young girl with psychic powers who has relentlessly bullied in school; what’s worse is, back home, she was also being abused by her overly religious mother.
The book was adapted by Brian De Palma into a movie in 1976 and is considered to be a horror classic; it even managed to spawn a sequel. A remake was also made in 2013 with actress Chloe Grace Moretz taking on the lead role.
With Flanagan at the helm, fans can only imagine that the series is going to have all these kinds of monologues explaining the theme of the show; but some do say that this adaptation should have a plus-sized actress in the role because one of the main reasons Carrie was bullied in the books was because she was heavyset.
For real like look at this fanart of a book accurate Carrie! pic.twitter.com/tW5FRLcDtM
— The Khaleesi of Fandom🟧 (@rowina_blx) October 21, 2024
At this point, I don’t know how a Carrie series can be made without spoiling or changing the ending, but I think the themes are still pretty relevant, and I’m open to see how they’ll expand the story.
No release date has been announced for Flanagan’s Carrie series.
