Mike Flanagan will make a television series based on Stephen King's Carrie

Carrie returns as a television series at Amazon with Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) at the helm. After scoring a major deal at the Toronto Film Festival with independent film production and distribution company Neon for audience award winner The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan (pictured) and Stephen King are back with a vengeance. Sources hear their next collaboration will be Carrie, this time in an eight-episode series for Amazon.



The 1974 novel put the young author King on the map and also cemented his value as an author whose genre stories were best translated to the silver screen. Brian De Palma was the first director to adapt King's coming-of-age story of a young, sheltered girl with a domineering mother whose bullying had unimaginable, blood-soaked consequences due to her kinetic powers.

Sissy Spacek played the title character and John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt also co-starred. This 1976 hit was followed by several sequels, including The Rage: Carrie 2, a 2002 television film, and a 2013 remake starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.

This would be the second recent deal in which one of King's treasures gets a longer story route. At A24, Paul Greegrass and JH Wyman adapted King's Fairy Tale into a series, after an earlier attempt to release it as a film at Universal made them realize there was simply too much story to cram into one film. The Gary Dauberman directorial Salem's Lot was just released for Halloween.

Flanagan and Trevor Macy will executive produce the series. King has several film adaptations in the pipeline. The Long Walk, which King wrote when he was 19 years old and published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, is being made into a film by Lionsgate starring Francis Lawrence; Jack Bender directs The Institute and Edgar Wright directs a new version of The Running Man, starring Glen Powell as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Katy O'Brian, Karl Glusman and Daniel Ezra. King also wrote that story under the Bachman pseudonym.

Flanagan previously directed Doctor Sleep, the sequel to King's The Shining, and Gerald's Game, and they are toying with the idea of ​​making a new version of The Dark Tower. Before his Netflix deal, he made the series The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher.