Stephen King: 48 years later, one of his best cinema adaptations will become a Prime Video series … and here is his cast! – News series

As Deadline reports, the series adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Carrieby filmmaker Mike Flanagan, in collaboration with Prime Video, unveiled his main cast.

Summer H. Howell (Curse of Chucky) was previously confirmed for the title role of Carrie White, while Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo, Five Nights at Freddy's) was chosen for the role of the main Grayle.

A new recruit is added today to the casting in the person of Samantha Sloyan, a regular by Flanagan, which we could see in his previous series The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club and the fall of the Usher house. His role as Bev Keane, the terrifying antagonist of Midnight Mass Precisely, will be particularly useful for the actress for her interpretation of Margaret White, the abusive mother of Carrie, embodied by Piper Laurie in the cult film of Brian de Palma of 1976, Carrie au Bal du Diable, with Sissy Spacek in the title role.

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The distribution of the series will also include Alison Thornton (Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce) in the role of Chris Hargensen, Thalia Dudek (Better Man) in the role of Emaline, Siena Agudong (Resident Evil, the series) in the role of Sue Snell, Amber Midthunder (Prey) in the role of Miss Desjardin, Josie Buccaneers) in the role of Tina, Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) in the role of Billy and Joel Oulette (Avatar: The Last Air Master) in the role of Tommy.

Qualified as “daring and timely reinterpretation of history”, The show, modernized, will follow Carrie, who spent her recluse life with her authoritarian mother. After the sudden and premature death of her father, the young girl finds herself confronted with the strange world of the public high school. At the same time, a harassment scandal upset her community and she has to face the emergence of her mysterious telekines. series showrunner, while Trevor Macy will be the executive producer.

This project will be the first series of Mike Flanagan For Amazon, after its very noticed passage at Netflix with the previously quoted series, without forgetting The HAUNING OF BLY MANOR.

While waiting for this next promising Flanagan project, direction Netflix therefore to (re) discover his previous works. To review the classic Carrie to the Devil's Ball, direction Prime Video.