Mike Flanagan is taking on another Stephen King adaptation as the latest project in his deal with Amazon MGM Studios. This time around, the horror master is developing an eight-episode series based on King’s debut novel Carrie.
The official logline (via Variety) describes the show as a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public high school, a bullying scandal that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”
Flanagan will write the series and executive produce with his Intrepid Pictures partner Trevor Macy. Carrie follows Flanagan’s previous Stephen King film adaptations of Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. More recently, he helmed the Tom Hiddleston-starring The Life of Chuck based on King’s 2020 novella of the same name.
Best known for his Netflix horror series like The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher, Flanagan has also teased a TV adaptation of King’s The Dark Tower. Next up, he is set to write, direct, and produce a “radical new take” on The Exorcist for Blumhouse.
Since its release in 1974 as King’s first novel, Carrie has received a 1976 film adaptation directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. That was followed by the sequel The Rage: Carrie 2 in 1999 and a TV reimagining of the original in 2002. The most recent movie version, a remake starring Chloë Grace Moretz, was released in 2013.
Another Stephen King adaptation in the works is Edgar Wright’s take on The Running Man, a 1982 novel written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. It is set to star Glen Powell in the role originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.