Attention all Stephen King (It: Welcome to Derry, Cain Rose Up) fans. Prime Video has just released the first-look images of the Carrie series adaptation they’ve been working on. Prepare yourself for the psychological horror series and see if it will live up to the novel’s standards.
For those who don’t know, Carrie is a novel that tells a story about a sheltered girl named Carrie White who discovers that she has telekinetic powers. When she is finally able to go to high school, she is tormented and bullied and one day a prank goes horribly wrong, causing Carrie to unleash her powers on the students and they see her as a monster. The series will consist of eight episodes, focusing just not on Carrie but also the other characters that are a part of Carrie’s life.
According to Amazon MGM Studios, here is the official logline for the series: “Misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Summer Howell) has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.”
The cast consists of Amber Midthunder (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Novocaine), Matthew Lillard (Daredevil: Born Again, Breaking Bear), Samantha Sloyan (Silver Anniversary, It’s Expensive to Be Poor), Josie Totah (Faces of Death, Codependent), Alison Thornton (Elle, What Comes Next), Joel Oulette (Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, My Life with the Walter Boys), Summer H. Howell (Night of the Reaper, Normal), Siena Agudong (Sidelined 2: Intercepted, You’re Dead to Me), Arthur Conti (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma), Thalia Dudek (Prisoner, Unchosen), Jason Tremblay (The Love Heist, Hope Valley: 1874), Mckayla Carse (Carrie, Love at the Ranch), and Heather Graham (Life in Film, They Will Kill You). We’ll have to keep our eyes peeled for an official trailer and a release date for the series. View additional photos below.
Carrie is written and executive produced by showrunner Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House) with Flanagan also directing four episodes. Stephen King also serves as executive producer. The series is an Amazon MGM Studios production.
Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie was published in 1974, launching a career in which his books have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. The novel spent 14 weeks. on The New York Times Best Seller list and has been translated into more than 35 languages. Brian De Palma’s 1976 film adaptation, an Academy Award-nominated feature, cemented the story’s cultural impact; this year marks the film’s 50th anniversary.