From Entertainment Weekly
Stephen King sounds off on new 'Carrie' remake -- EXCLUSIVE
by Jeff Labrecque
Image Credit: Everett Collection
Thirty-five years after Stephen King’s first best-seller roared into theaters and scared a generation of prom-going teens, MGM and Screen Gems have hired playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to resurrect Carrie with a more faithful adaptation of King’s novel, according to Deadline.
But King, who famously disapproved of Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, tells EW he still has a soft spot for Brian De Palma’s original film: “I’ve heard rumblings about a Carrie remake, as I have about The Stand and It. Who knows if it will happen? The real question is why, when the original was so good? I mean, not Casablanca, or anything, but a really good horror-suspense film, much better than the book. Piper Laurie really got her teeth into the bad-mom thing. Although Lindsay Lohan as Carrie White… hmmm. It would certainly be fun to cast. I guess I could get behind it if they turned the project over to one of the Davids: Lynch or Cronenberg.”
Aguirre-Sacasa, who recently rewrote the Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark script, is an accomplished comic-book author familiar with the King oeuvre; he adapted King’s epic The Stand into comic-book form in 2008.
Wasn't there a remake seven or eight years ago? I guess that one was so godawful that it's vanished from the collective memory.
ReplyDeleteYou may be thinking of the Bway production that closed quickly.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about the Broadway production, and my memory was off about a movie remake. I was thinking of the "sequel" THE RAGE: CARRIE II, which came and went in 1999. IMDB also lists a made-for-TV remake in 2002 that maybe even King himself doesn't remember http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319970/
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