Booksology Flanagan and his writing team carry A new direction for this miniseries. carry is one of Dr. King’s shortest books, so this new adaptation is an expansion of the original work. In an interview with entertainment weeklyFlanagan explained: “Typically, when you adapt a Stephen King book, the mission is completely different. How do I make it smaller? (…) This was completely the opposite. If you were to tell Carrie White’s story in a full-length story, how would you expand it? ”
carry This new adaptation also modernizes and explores how technology has changed the way teens socialize, interact, and (yes) bully each other.
“The themes that Steve talked about half a century ago – kindness versus cruelty, empathy versus bullying, and violence in schools – are more real today than he ever imagined, because of our relationship with technology and because of how pervasive violence is among high school students, especially in the United States,” Flanagan said in his book. entertainment weekly Interview.
The series will also explore Carrie’s backstory. After her father’s death, Carrie attends public school for the first time in her life, which helps explain her position as an awkward outsider from the beginning of the film. Summer Howell plays Carrie (Hunter Hunter, Night of the Grim Reaper).
Samantha Sloyan worked with Flanagan Hush, The Haunting of Hill House, The Midnight Club, and Fall of the House of Usherplays Margaret White, Carrie’s controlling and ultra-religious mother. The rest of the cast includes Sienna Agdon as popular girl Sue Snell, Joel Woollett as Sue’s boyfriend Tommy Ross, Amber Midthunder as gym teacher Rita Desjardins, Alison Thornton as school bully Chris Hargensen, and Arthur Conti as Chris’ boyfriend Billy Nolan. And yes, Matthew Lillard (the actor you know and love) scream), he also appears in the series as high school principal Henry Grail.
Fans of Stephen King’s novels can expect many of the novel’s themes and major plot points. carry to remain the same. However, this series deviates from the original in many ways. Expect surprises and re-imaginings of the stories you know and love.
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