Mike Flanagan’s CARRIE Series Gets Greenlight From Prime Video

Avery Kaplan

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Cover of Carrie by Stephen King, featuring the logo, author name and "a novel of a girl with a frightening power" on the right, and an image of half of Carrie's face on the left.

Highlights

  • Prime Video has given a series order for Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation. 
  • Flanagan will serve as showrunner and write, executive produce and direct the eight-episode series.
  • Writing for the show began in the fall of 2024. 

Prime Video has given the greenlight to Mike Flanagan‘s “reimagined” Carrie series. Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Carrie is another in Flanagan’s growing body of King adaptations. Originally announced in October 2024, the anticipated series will be the third onscreen adaptation of King’s 1974 debut novel.

Carrie on Prime Video

As originally announced by Deadline, Flanagan will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner for the series. He will also direct several of the show’s eight episodes. Writing on the series began in the fall of 2024. So far, Siena Agudong has been cast as Carrie’s nemesis, Sue Snell. Meanwhile, Summer H. Howell is in negotiations to play Carrie White.

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Carrie tells the story of the titular teenager. She lives a sheltered life, thanks to her abusive mother. This leads to excessive bullying from the other kids at school. But things take a turn for the supernatural when Carrie begins developing dangerous telekinetic powers just before the prom.

As previously mentioned, Flanagan is no stranger to King adaptations. In addition to Carrie, he’s currently working on an adaptation of the eight-volume Dark Tower series for Prime Video. Previously, he directed adaptations of King’s novels Gerald’s Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019). In addition, the upcoming The Life of Chuck, based on a novella by King, will be widely released in theaters in June 2025.

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Carrie‘s first movie adaptation was in 1976 by director Brian De Palma, which starred Sissy Spacek. A second adaptation followed in 2013, directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Chloë Grace Moretz. There was also an onstage musical adaptation, Carrie: The Musical, which debuted in 1988. Will you check out the latest version when it arrives on Prime Video?

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