Carrie

Carrie coverage currently turns on one announcement: the 1974 Stephen King novel has been adapted as a drama series confirmed for Prime Video, with all eight episodes arriving at once on October 7. Mike Flanagan is showrunner, writer, and executive producer. King is an executive producer. The announcement came with a key visual, scene photos, and a Japanese trailer. Summer H. Howell plays Carrie White and Samantha Sloyan plays Margaret.

The framing of the adaptation is the other settled point. The move takes Carrie from the 1976 film by Brian De Palma into series-length television, and King has backed Flanagan's reading of the story as one about social media rather than blood alone. That places the show's center of gravity in the present rather than in the novel's original setting, at least as the adaptation has been described.

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What remains open is everything past the premiere date. The stories do not say how many episodes follow the first batch, whether a second season is planned, or how the social media reading plays out on screen.