When television’s go-to man for horror Mike Flanagan was approached about adapting Stephen King’s 1974 novel Carrie, his first reaction was no.
To him, it wasn’t a question of whether he could adapt Stephen King’s classic tale of high-school hell – over the years, Flanagan has adapted no fewer than three of King’s titles, and developed a close relationship with the writer – it was a question of whether he should, or rather why he should.
