Stephen King‘s Carrie is getting the reboot treatment again, as a new limited series version of the classic horror story is in the works from FX and MGM TV. According to a new report from Collider, the project is in the very early stages and does not yet have a script or an official release date. Both FX and MGM TV also have yet to officially comment on the news.
While details for this new Carrie project are very scarce, Collider offers some details about a key character change for Carrie. Per the report, the character “will likely be played by either a trans performer or an actress of color rather than a cis white woman, as in past adaptations.” Of course, these plans are still subject to change as casting has not yet officially begun for the series and the project still needs to be scripted.
Carrie was first adapted as a movie in 1976, with the film getting an official sequel decades later when The Rage: Carrie 2 was released in 1999. NBC then aired a made-for-TV movie version of Carrie in 2002, and the franchise returned to theaters in 2013 when Chloe Grace Moretz starred in another movie reboot. This new project from FX and MGM TV will be the first time the franchise has been adapted as an ongoing series.
Stay tuned for more info. For now, you can quickly revisit the original Carrie movie from 1976 by watching the film’s most pivotal scene below.
Synopsis:Â In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.
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