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After 50 years, nan cosmopolitan themes that made Carrie a scary masterpiece are getting an update for a caller generation.
Heather Graham, who stars successful Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming bid reboot of Stephen King’s 1974 book for Amazon MGM Studios, precocious revealed immoderate specifications astir her characteristic successful nan eight-episode show.
“If you retrieve nan original movie, Carrie’s sewage 2 main antagonists,” she said astatine MegaCon Orlando, according to Collider. “She has her mother, and she has nan woman astatine schoolhouse who’s bullying her. I played nan mom of nan woman astatine schoolhouse who’s bullying her.
Noting that Flanagan has “expanded connected nan story” for his series, Graham added, “Hopefully they’re looking to do possibly a 2nd play too.”
Graham antecedently told Collider she’s already “seen nan first 3 episodes, and they’re great,” explaining really nan show updates nan communicative for a caller procreation of teens.
“They bring successful an facet of societal media bullying and guns successful school, truthful they effort to modernize it, and I do consciousness for illustration [Flanagan] captures nan principle of what makes Carrie great,” said Graham.
Wrapping accumulation past October, Carrie is described arsenic a reimagining of nan communicative of misfit precocious schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life successful seclusion pinch her domineering mother. After her father’s abrupt death, Carrie finds herself contending pinch nan challenges of attending precocious school, a bullying ungraded and nan emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.
After Deadline exclusively announced Flanagan’s Carrie successful October 2024, he found his titular telekinetic teen successful Summer Howell, rounding retired nan formed pinch Matthew Lillard arsenic Principal Grayle, Samantha Sloyan arsenic Carrie’s mom Margaret White, Alison Thornton arsenic Chris Hargensen, Thalia Dudek arsenic Emaline, Siena Agudong arsenic Sue Snell, Amber Midthunder arsenic Miss Desjardin, Josie Totah arsenic Tina, Arthur Conti arsenic Billy and Joel Oulette arsenic Tommy. Other additions see Graham, Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Katee Sackhoff, Rahul Kohli, Crystal Balint and Danielle Klaudt.
