Carrie | Mike Flanagan to make Stephen King novel into television series

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Filmmaker Mike Flanagan is reteaming with Stephen King to adapt Carrie into an eight-part television series for Amazon Prime.


Director Mike Flanagan has adapted several works by Stephen King over his career to date, and now he’s at it again. According to Deadline, Mike Flanagan is teaming up with King once again to adapt his classic novel Carrie as an eight part television series for Amazon Prime.

Carrie, the story of a lonely, abused, bullied girl who acquires telekinetic powers, was previously adapted into a film in 1976 by Brian De Palma, with Sissy Spacek taking on the title role alongside Piper Laurie as her mother. The Rage: Carrie 2, which was an original screenplay called The Curse that was hurriedly rewritten into a Carrie sequel, was released in 1999 to critical and commercial failure. A remake arrived in 2013, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.

The Carrie new follows word that another King novel, Fairy Tale, is being adapted into a television series by director Paul Greengrass and writer JH Wyman.

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Making his debut in 2011 with Absentia, Mike Flanagan made Oculus in 2013. But it was with the terrific Hush in 2016 that Flanagan really showed horror fans what he could do. After a sojourn into sequels with Ouija: Origin Of Evil, also in 2016, he began a fruitful collaboration with Stephen King.

It began with Gerald’s Game for Netflix in 2017 – a film which for the most part is a psychological thriller but which also contains a violent sequence which is almost impossible to watch – followed by the critically acclaimed Shining sequel Doctor Sleep in 2019, which features a terrifying turn from Rebecca Ferguson as antagonist Rose the Hat.

This is also a good time to recommend Flanagan’s television shows, particularly Midnight Mass and The Fall Of The House Of Usher, both of which are available to stream on Netflix. Oh, and Flangan’s also busy making a new sequel to The Exorcist. He’s a busy chap.

We’ll keep you updated on Carrie as we hear more.

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