One of Stephen King’s most famous novels is getting a streaming remake on Amazon

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Who amended to accommodate a Stephen King caller than 1 of nan astir salient scary creators moving today?

Per Deadline, Mike Flanagan will create a tv adjustment of King’s 1974 caller Carrie. Flanagan will accommodate nan book into an eight-episode bid for streaming connected Amazon Prime Video. Flanagan and Trevor Macy will executive nutrient nan task done Intrepid Pictures.

Released successful 1974, Carrie follows nan titular Carrie, a precocious schoolhouse teen who lives pinch her overprotective mother. Carrie has nary friends, and she’s perpetually bullied astatine school. However, Carrie yet discovers her telekinesis powers and uses them against her bullies aft a prank goes horribly wrong.

Carrie was famously adapted by Brian De Palma successful 1976, pinch Sissy Spacek playing nan title character. Carrie also starred John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, and Betty Buckley. The movie became a commercialized and captious success, pinch Spacek and Laurie receiving Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. De Palma’s Carrie is wide considered 1 of nan astir influential horrors of each time.

The occurrence of Carrie spawned a sequel, 1999’s The Rage: Carrie 2, a 2013 remake starring Chloë Grace Moretz, and a 2002 tv film.

Carrie is different summation to Flanagan’s increasing database of King adaptations. Flanagan wrote and directed 2019’s Doctor Sleep, King’s sequel to The Shining, and 2017’s Gerald’s Game, a psychological scary starring Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood.

Most recently, Flanagan wrote and directed The Life of Chuck, an adjustment of King’s novella starring Tom Hiddleston arsenic nan titular Chuck. The sci-fi play won nan Audience Award astatine nan 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Neon later acquired nan movie and plans to release The Life of Chuck in theaters adjacent summer.