Flanagan previously directed Doctor Sleep, the sequel to King’s The Shining and Gerald’s Game.
After achieving great success in Toronto Film Festival with Neon for the winner of the Audience Award The Life of Chuckthe director Mike Flanagan and Stephen King They work together again. Your next collaboration will be Carriethis time in an 8-episode series for Amazon.
The 1974 novel put the young author King on the map and also reinforced his value as an author whose genre narrative was more transferable to the big screen. Brian DePalma was the first director to adapt King’s coming-of-age story, about a sheltered young woman with a domineering mother whose bullying caused unimaginable bloody consequences due to her hyperkinetic powers.
Sissy Spacek played the main character, and they also acted John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt. After that 1976 hit came several sequels, including The Rage: Carrie 2a 2002 television movie, and a 2013 remake starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.
More Stephen King adaptations to come
This would be the second recent deal in which one of King’s treasures would have a longer narrative path. A24 has Paul Greengrass and J.H. Wyman adapting King’s fairy tale into a series, after an earlier attempt to mount it as a film at Universal made them realize it was too much story to fit into a single film. Salem’s Lotdirected by Gary Daubermanjust released for Halloween.
Flanagan and Trevor Macy They will be the executive producers of the series. King, who is famous for selling his literary properties for a dollar on a short leash, has several film adaptations in the pipeline. The Long Walkwhich King wrote at age 19 and was published under the pseudonym Richard Bachmanwill be presented at Lionsgate with Francis Lawrence; Jack Bender will direct The Instituteand Edgar Wright will direct a new version of The Running Manwith Glen Powell playing the original role of Arnold Schwarzeneggerand Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Katy O’Brian, Karl Glusmann and Daniel Ezra also as protagonists. King wrote that under the pseudonym Bachman, and I can remember how exciting it was for all of us who devoured the author’s writing, that a bunch of his other writings were there to be devoured again.
Flanagan previously directed Doctor Sleepthe sequel to The glow of King and Gerald’s gameand have been considering the idea of making a new version of The Dark Tower.
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