Every few years, you can count on Mike Flanagan to deliver a new take on a Stephen King classic — and you can rest assured knowing it’ll probably be pretty good, too. The writer has spent the past decade delivering delicious spins on spine-tingling, heartstring-tugging horror stories, but he’s never touched Carrie until now.
Any King die-hard will be justifiably wary of this new adaptation of one of the author’s most-loved works. King loved the Brian De Palma film, but hated the 2017 remake (along with the rest of the world). When Flanagan first approached King about taking on a new adaptation, his first question was, Why?