Iconic Stephen King novel set for modern TV adaptation helmed by Mike Flanagan

Stephen King's debut caller is being adapted into a caller Amazon bid with a celebrated fearfulness writer and manager astatine the helm

A beloved Stephen King caller is coming to the tiny surface 50 years aft it was published, with the acclaimed fearfulness filmmaker Mike Flanagan astatine the helm.

Carrie marked King's archetypal caller successful 1974 and triggered a movie franchise, starting with Brian De Palma's 1976 cult classic, which is wide considered its champion adaptation.

Now, the manager of The Haunting of Hill House is reported to beryllium moving connected an eight-episode adaptation with Amazon.

The caller centres Carrie White, a precocious schoolhouse outcast who gains telekinetic powers and uses her newfound spot to transportation retired a revenge ngo connected her schoolhouse bullies.

According to Variety, Flanagan's instrumentality connected the classical is simply a “bold and timely reimagining of the communicative of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her beingness successful seclusion with her domineering mother."

The synopsis continues: "After her father’s abrupt and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien scenery of nationalist High School, a bullying ungraded that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”

On the ft of the 1976 hit, a sequel was released successful 1999 titled: The Rage: Carrie 2. Three years aboriginal a TV movie adaptation premiered, followed by the 2013 remake directed by Kimberly Peirce, starring Chloë Grace Moretz.

Although the writer-director is the latest to articulation the franchise, this volition beryllium his 4th King adaptation. He astir precocious wrote and directed The Life of Chuck, based connected the 2020 King novella. In 2019, helium helmed Doctor Sleep, based connected the 2013 King caller and helium adapted Gerald's Game for Netflix successful 2017.

Horror fans person welcomed the news, with galore praising the director. On X, formerly Twitter, 1 idiosyncratic shared: "I was upset until I work 'Mike Flanagan'." Another agreed and wrote: "If it wasn't for Mike Flanagan I'd beryllium groaning but funny to spot however this turns out."

A 3rd commented: "Since this antheral [Flanagan] has already successfully adapted Henry James and Edgar Allen Poe books into shows, I stake helium tin bash conscionable astir anything."

Flanagan adapted Henry James' literate classical The Haunting of Bly Manor and Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher into Netflix constricted series.

A merchandise day for the Carrie bid is yet to beryllium announced.