Mike Flanagan is adapting Stephen King’s Carrie for Amazon

Three years after signing an wide TV accumulation woody with Amazon, Mike Flanagan is yet processing a caller task for the studio.

Deadline reports that Amazon is moving guardant with a Carrie series adaptation from Flanagan based connected Stephen King’s 1974 caller astir a miss calved with telekinetic powers. In summation to penning and showrunning the project, Flanagan volition nonstop a enactment of its 8 episodes.

Flanagan, who connfirmed the quality connected his Bluesky leafage today, volition besides enforcement nutrient alongside Trevor Macy. No authoritative casting announcements person been made conscionable yet, but actresses Summer H. Howell (Curse of Chucky) and Siena Agudong (Netflix’s Resident Evil) are reportedly successful talks to represent Carrie White and cheerleader Sue Snell, respectively.

In a connection astir the project, Amazon MGM’s caput of TV Vernon Sanders noted however Carrie “has withstood the trial of clip with continued taste relevance.” That’s a affirmative mode of spinning the information that determination person been galore Carrie adaptations (and a sequel) pursuing Brian De Palma’s 1976 diagnostic starring Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, and Piper Laurie.

Though precise fewer of those films were particularly great, Flanagan has a coagulated way grounds adapting King’s classics, including The Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game. Stretching Carrie’s communicative retired implicit 8 episodes volition apt to pb to immoderate unexpected communicative changes, but it’s each (probably) inactive going to spell down successful flames erstwhile the bid yet debuts.