CARRIE: Mike Flanagan's Stephen King Adaptation Adds Amber Midthunder, Samantha Sloyan, And More

CARRIE: Mike Flanagan's Stephen King Adaptation Adds Amber Midthunder, Samantha Sloyan, And More

Mike Flanagan's Prime Video adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie has rounded out its cast, with Amber Midthunder, Samantha Sloyan, Matthew Lillard and more joining the 8-part series...

By MarkCassidy - Jun 03, 2025 09:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Amazon
Source: Via FearHQ.com

Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House) is set to re-team with Stephen King for a new small-screen adaptation of the legendary's author's first novel, Carrie, and the show has now rounded out its cast.

Following the recent news that Summer H. Howell (Hunter Hunter, Curse of Chucky) is set to play troubled telekinetic teen Carrie White, the rest of the principal cast members have been announced.

The series will also star Samantha Sloyan (The Fall of the House of Usher) as Carrie’s religious fanatic mother, Margaret White, Alison Thornton (Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce) as Chris Hargensen, Thalia Dudek (The Running Man) as Emaline, Siena Agudong (Sidelined: The QB and Me) as Sue Snell, Amber Midthunder (FX’s Legion) as Miss Desjardin, Josie Totah (AppleTV+’s The Buccaneers) as Tina, Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) as Billy, Joel Oulette (Sullivan’s Crossing) as Tommy, and Matthew Lillard (Scream) as Principal Grayle.

The synopsis for this new adaptation reads: "A bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White (Howell), who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public High School, a bullying scandal that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”

Flanagan and King - who recently collaborated on the upcoming The Life of Chuck - are developing the supernatural coming-of-rage tale as an eight-episode series for Amazon, with Flanagan on board as showrunner and exec producer.

 Brian De Palma's 1976 take on the book is widely viewed as one of the better King adaptations, with Sissy Spacek delivering a terrifying and tragic turn as the title character, who begins to manifest destructive telekinetic abilities after being relentlessly bullied by her classmates and tormented by her domineering religious fanatic mother. John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt also starred.

The movie's climactic bloodbath is often hailed as one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

2002 sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2, was not well-received, and the less said about the 2013 remake starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore the better.

King has several other feature adaptation of his work on the horizon, including The Long Walk, which the horror maestro wrote at age 19 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman; Jack Bender's The Institute, and Edgar Wright's new take on The Running Man with Glen Powell in the lead role. Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Katy O’Brian, Karl Glusman and Daniel Ezra are also on board. 

In addition, Paul Greegrass and JH Wyman are adapting King’s recent bestseller, Fairy Tale, into a series. The project was initially being developed as a feature at Universal.

Flanagan previously helmed King's The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, and Gerald’s Game. There are rumors that they are also discussing a new version of The Dark Tower.  

What do you make of this casting news? Any interest in yet another adaptation of Carrie... even with Flanagan involved? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below. You can also check out the trailer and synopsis for De Palma's movie.

"In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn."

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Skestra
Skestra - 6/3/2025, 9:05 AM
Exactly how many adaptations of "Carrie" do we need? It feels like every five years another one is being produced.
dragon316
dragon316 - 6/3/2025, 11:33 AM
@Skestra - how many more do we need of Superman turtles Batman Spider-Man Godzilla vampire and werewolf
Skestra
Skestra - 6/3/2025, 11:37 AM
@dragon316 - I've never seen a Superman Turtles movie, nor a Godzilla Vampire film. I don't know what planet you're living on, my friend.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/3/2025, 9:09 AM

the original movie was great in its time, but this is too much.

MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/3/2025, 10:46 AM
@DocSpock -

It's still pretty decent.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/3/2025, 12:59 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea -

Yeah, when I get stuck on squid detail with shrimps while the hens go shopping, I show the weasels things like this to get even with them.
BigDriggs
BigDriggs - 6/3/2025, 10:08 AM
Do we need another carrie?? Can you please just do a proper dark Tower instead of holding onto the rights and doing absolutely nothing with it?
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 6/3/2025, 10:19 AM
If they don’t “ugly her up” quite a bit, this will seem downright farcical.

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1stDalek
1stDalek - 6/3/2025, 4:45 PM
@Lisa89 - same issue the remake had with Moretz as Carrie, you can put her in as many old-lady dresses and simple make-up as you want, but a traditionally beautiful person will always look too pretty.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/3/2025, 10:45 AM
The Sissy Spacek movie is good enough.

We don't need a new adaptation every 5 to 25 years.

How about Stephen King asks some people to put some time and energy towards making good adaptations of The Dark Tower?

And stories that don't have movies yet.
jst5
jst5 - 6/3/2025, 10:47 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - This is a modern day take on Carrie....Carrie use to be Carl.
breakUbatman
breakUbatman - 6/3/2025, 1:35 PM
Dirty pillows...
batman001
batman001 - 6/4/2025, 4:03 AM
Hate to say this but the lead is far to pretty to be Carrie she has to look like an average person and not like she's just stepped off a fashion show runway.

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