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More than 50 years aft Stephen King‘s first published novel, Mike Flanagan has teased he’s recovered a caller measurement to accommodate Carrie.
With nan eight-episode Amazon constricted bid wrapping accumulation successful October, nan scary filmmaker precocious explained why he collapsed his “no sequels” aliases remakes norm for nan 1974 novel, which has already spawned 4 movies and a shape musical.
“A caller measurement presented itself, thing that felt very timely and new,” Flanagan told Empire Magazine.
“I’ve really enjoyed chasing nan things that hadn’t already been done, and trying to find caller ways into them,” he explained. “And I utilized to say, ‘No sequels.'”
Flanagan antecedently collapsed that norm erstwhile he publication King’s 2013 caller Doctor Sleep, a sequel to 1977’s The Shining. “That threw that successful my face,” he said, referring to his 2019 characteristic adaptation.
“It proved to beryllium irresistible,” said Flanagan. “The Shining is simply a communicative astir alcoholism, and because Steve wrote this sequel of sorts that is simply a communicative astir recovery, it presented this point of, ‘Oh, we’re coating nan 2nd broadside of nan aforesaid coin; we’re completing a story.'”
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, and Arthur Conti arsenic Billy and Joel Oulette arsenic Tommy. Other additions see Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Katee Sackhoff, Rahul Kohli, Crystal Balint, and Danielle Klaudt and Heather Graham.
