Mike Flanagan Scares Up Another With Stephen King: ‘Carrie’ As An 8-Ep Amazon Series: The Dish
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After scoring the big deal at the Toronto Film Festival with Neon for Audience Award winner The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are right back at it.
The Dish hears their next collaboration will be Carrie, this time in an 8-episode series for Amazon. The 1974 novel put the young author King on the map, and also bolstered his worth as an author whose genre storytelling was most translatable to the big screen.
Brian De Palma was the first director to adapt King’s coming of age story of a young sheltered girl with a domineering mother whose bullying caused unimaginable blood-soaked consequences due to her hyperkinetic powers.
Sissy Spacek played the title character, and John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt also starred.
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