Hill House creator Mike Flanagan to remake Carrie

A new Stephen King adaptation for the king of serial horror.

They were meant to cross paths one day. Mike Flanagan is preparing a remake of Carriefor Prime Video. It will be a TV series which will take up the book by Stephen King from 1974.

The director and creator of The Haunting of Hill House (2018), but also Midnight Sermons (2021) or The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), for Netflix, therefore changes platform.

Flanagan's version is supposed to be “a bold and timely reimagining of the story of Carrie White, a high school misfit who spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother,” details the official description. “After the sudden and untimely death of her father, Carrie must find a place for herself in the particular landscape of high school, bullying scandals and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”

Flanagan will be writer, showrunner and executive producer of the series which will have 8 episodes. No date announced yet.

We do not yet know who will take over the role played by Sissy Spacek in the famous Carrie at the Devil's Ball of Brian DePalma in 1976, taken over in 2013 by Chloe Grace Moretz In Carrie: revenge.

It will be noted that Mike Flanagan has already adapted Stephen King repeatedly. He notably dared to make the sequel to Shining at the cinema, with Doctor Sleep (in 2019). He had also worn Jessie in feature film on Netflix (in 2017) and we wait to see in the coming months Chuck's Life (summer 2025) in theaters. Furthermore, according to the latest news, Mike Flanagan was also supposed to make a TV series Dark Tower for Prime Video.