Carrie: Everything You Need To Know About Mike Flanagan's TV Series
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Stephen King's novel "Carrie" is an impactful story about bullying, coming of age, and the extremely violent events that transpire when the girl experiencing the bullying happens to be a powerful telekinetic. This is not a new story, of course: King wrote "Carrie" in 1974, so it has influenced popular culture for decades and been filmed several times already. Watching Looper's video above will get you up to speed on everything you need to know about the upcoming TV series version.
Mike Flanagan has made quite a few Stephen King adaptations, and King thinks that Flanagan's "Carrie" series for Prime Video is just great. The serialized version of the story will no doubt provide opportunities for adapting King's original 1974 novel both accurately and in a way that fits modern sensibilities, but it will also give Flanagan the option to explore the story's details however he deems fit. The trailer for "Carrie" already confirmed that the series will heavily revolve around more contemporary aspects of bullying, so the story has been clearly adapted for today's viewers.
Carrie is a story that leaves plenty of room for expansion
Far and away the best-known adaptation of "Carrie" so far is the 1976 Brian De Palma movie, which starred an Oscar-nominated Sissy Spacek as the title character. However, it's far from the only project that uses this particular intellectual property as its inspiration. in 1999, "The Rage: Carrie 2" introduced us to a similar story that focused on Carrie's equally tormented and telekinetic half-sister Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl). A TV movie adaptation of "Carrie" aired on NBC in 2002, featuring Angela Bettis as the tormented teen, while in 2013, "Boys Don't Cry" director Kimberly Peirce helmed a big-screen remake of the De Palma movie, starring Chloé Grace Moretz as Carrie.
On the 2026 Prime Video series, Carrie White is played by Summer H. Howell, and she has the extreme misfortune of going to school for the first time in age of social media. The dark history of "Carrie" leaves plenty of room for interpretation, and Mike Flanagan has proved that he's quite adept at figuring out what works in live-action Stephen King adaptations. As such, the show will likely introduce King fans to a brand new spin on the story's terrors — and watching Looper's video above is the perfect way to prepare yourself for what Flanagan has in store with "Carrie."