We learned this recently Mike Flanagan is developing another Stephen King project with an adaptation of an eight-episode series of Carrie for Amazon Prime Video.
Carrie tells the story of a shy and awkward high school girl, Carrie White, who is relentlessly bullied by her classmates and tormented by her fanatically religious mother, Margaret.
While going through all this and feeling isolated and misunderstood, Carrie discovers that she has telekinetic powers.
When a cruel prank is played on her at the school prom, Carrie snaps, unleashing her pent-up rage and using her powers to exact devastating, deadly revenge on her tormentors and the town.
The story’s climactic prom scene is undoubtedly one of the most iconic in horror literature and films.
This story has been adapted a few times before and when asked in an interview with CinemaBlend why he wanted to tell this story again, Flanagan said:
“One of the only questions I had when it was first put on the table was ‘Why?’, and if I couldn’t answer ‘Why do it again?’ for me, then it made no sense to continue the project. It’s the same muscle.
“I will say it’s the same feeling I had when we approached The Turn of the Screw, which has been adapted dozens of times. And it’s like, ‘Okay, how can we do this completely differently?'”
When asked what Stephen King thought about the story being told again, Flanagan said: “His first question was mine too. …Steve’s first reaction was, ‘Why do this again?'”
Well, the director has a direction he wants to take the story that won’t retread anything that came before. Poking fun at the project, he said:
“I can’t spoil our approach to Carrie just to reassure people that we’re not retreading the same story. It’s definitely a new approach to the material, which Stephen King is excited about and which is important to me too.
When he talked about how he earned that enthusiasm from King, he said that if he didn’t excite King, he wouldn’t have done it.
“It was done and it was done beautifully, probably perfectly by De Palma and then done again for ‘reasons’. Why do it again now?
“And so when he looked at the proposal that I had prepared for him, his reaction was, oh, this is really, really exciting for him. And then I said, ‘Okay, if he’s excited, then we should do it.’ But otherwise I wouldn’t have done it. …It will be a very pleasant surprise for the fans.”
I assume this will be a contemporary version of the story and when he teased his initial idea for the project, Flanagan told MovieWeb:
“Carrie White walking through a metal detector is interesting to me. Carrie White with social media. The iconic scene in the locker room is very different when people have their phones in their hands.
“So this was the first germ of an idea, like, is there room for this to actually have a lot to say that is very relevant. And I can’t spoil the changes we made to find a story that felt like it needed to be told. But we’ve made some pretty substantial changes.”
Flanagan is a great storyteller and a director who has an understanding of King’s work that many directors don’t have, and I’m excited to see what his vision for this story will be as he brings it to life. like a series.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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