Mike Flanagan Wraps Production on Carrie Miniseries for Amazon Prime Video
The ultimate Prom Queen movie is back, and no, it’s not going to be about fluffy romance, and young people in love and proposing each other for dates. It’s about the most popular Prom Queen in books: Carrie White.
Following Mike Flanagan’s departure from Netflix, his first horror series with Amazon Prime has already wrapped up filming, and he describes it as one of his favorite projects ever.
And why wouldn’t it be? Mike Flanagan has worked on at least three Stephen King adaptations in the past: Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Life of Chuck.
It’s no surprise that Mike Flanagan had taken the opportunity to adapt Stephen King’s first commercially successful novel, CARRIE.
Over time, Carrie has been adapted for movies and has featured regularly in popular culture due to the iconic scene where Carrie has pig’s blood dumped on her and she goes on a rampage thanks to her telekinesis powers.
While the book was told in an epistolary form with mock reports and testimonies, the adapted movies took on more of a linear storytelling form.
The most popular adaptation, 1976 Brian De Palma’s film, starred Sissy Spacek as the titular character while Piper Laurie played Margaret White, the overly religious mother who is also abusive and controlling.
The movie is still regarded as the best adaptation of the novel so far.
Mike Flanagan has reportedly taken a different approach to the story. His adaptation will be bold and timely, and apparently focus more on the community failing Carrie rather than her telekinesis powers.
He is incorporating modern themes like cyberbullying in the story and how perceived anonymity can cause more harm.
So now imagine the locker room scene in Carrie when she gets her period for the first time and freaks out. Instead of Chris being the one who harasses Carrie and gets her friends to throw sanitary napkins and tampons at her, a new take on it will show the girls now recording Carrie on their phones and posting her videos online to humiliate her.
But to become a victim of cyberbullying, Carrie would have to be online herself, and would she have really not come across what menstruation is? Perhaps the locker room shower scene will be even more disturbing to watch with Mike Flanagan at the helm.
Directed by Mike Flanagan and based on the novel by Stephen King, the main cast of the Amazon Prime Video series Carrie includes Summer H. Howell as Carrie White, Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White, Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen, Arthur Conti as Billy Nolan, Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross, Amber Midthunder as Miss Desjardin, and Matthew Lillard as Principal Grayle.
CARRIE, the TV series, is expected to be released sometime in 2026 and will consist of 8 episodes.
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