Get your dress ready for prom and fill up those buckets with pig blood, because Hollywood’s moving forward with a remake of “Carrie.”
Brian DePalma’s 1976 thriller about a bullied girl (Sissy Spacek) cursed with telekinetic powers was, in itself, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name. Now MGM and Screen Gems say they are moving ahead with a new take on the “Carrie” tale, and they have hired “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to write a script, THR says.
That’s a great hire. Aguirre-Sacasa was the one hired to fix the troubled book for the “Spider-Man” Broadway show. A playwright, he also writes comics for Marvel, and no doubt respects the idea of canon, which is vital to adapting a novelist like King.
No word on when the studios want their “Carrie” in theaters. Stay tuned for more information.
By Sean O’Connell
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