Stephen King’s 1974 novel Carrie has already had three adaptations in the last 50 years, and now a fourth adaptation may be on the way. Horror maven Mike Flanagan is developing Carrie as a TV series for Amazon’s Prime Video.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon MGM Studios is producing the Carrie series as “a bold and timely reimagining” of King’s story. In the book and the previous adaptations, Carrie is a teenage girl whose life has been dominated by her religiously fanatical mother. Carrie is also mercilessly teased by her fellow students in school before she discovers telekinetic powers that allow her to get vengeance on everyone who wronged her.
Flanagan has previously directed feature films based on King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game, as well as the upcomin…