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Stephen King's CARRIE Is Being Re-Adapted Again
Merrick here...
Comic author/playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - who was recently recruited to salvage the legendarily challenged SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK Broadway musical - will next turn his sight on a re-adaptation of Stephen King's CARRIE.
King's tale of a vengeful and telekinetic teenage girl was famously adapted by Brian De Palma back in 1976 (HERE)...
...and was awkwardly sequelized via THE RAGE in 1999 (HERE) before being re-adapted as THIS 2002 telefilm starring Angela Bettis.
Per THIS piece at Deadline, Aguirre-Sacasa will write a version that is more faithful to the King book than the earlier movie, much the same as Joel and Ethan Coen went back to the Charles Portis novel True Grit to present a version that didn't really feel like a remake.
Every girl I dated pretty much behaved like Carrie does at the end of this story, so I've never fully understood what the big deal is here.
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Carrie the musical ?
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You can't top the original and the remake sucked
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I never read the book, but going off of the Wikipedia write up, it sounds like all the changes made for the original film were for the better. I have a feeling now when everyone makes a shit remake they're going to say hey, we're going the True Grit route because it was good.
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Who gets bullied for being a Lady Gaga fan!
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Could play the mother part now...that would be interesting... Still, do we really have a director who can surpass or even match the style of the original film?? And the book, as I recall, is written in several different styles (third person narrative, journal entries, news reports) and points of view. I do not know how that would shake out on film? More docu-like?
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May 20, 2011, 9:06 a.m. CST
PR Bullcrap! Unless it's the Coen's themselves then it is not "Much the same..."
by Sequitur
Don't drag them into this
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on the reamake front. Remember Ladykillers!
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The movie is pretty damn close to the book, so I am not sure WTF they are talking about.
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Carrie to be Nazi. Jane Lynch to play the gym teacher. Dakota Fanning as Carrie. Fat dude from Modern Family as possibly gay principal. Miley Cyrus as bully. Justin Beiber as bully's boyfriend. Jennifer Garner as Miss Marple....I mean Carrie's mom.
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Get your name from smoking too much crack?
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Sure he's made some bad films, but he's made 30 or so. And if any thing, he's vastly underrated.
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De Palma is one of the most underrated directors ever! Lets see here: Blow-Out Carrie(no need what so ever for a remake) Scarface Dressed to Kill Raising Cain Femme Fatal yeah, his made some bad movies but so have all great directors. For instance, Scorsese-New York, New York, Gangs of New York(except for opening fight sequence and Bill), Spielberg( 1941, Always, ect) Anyone who doesn't like De Palma doesn't have the right to like Cinema. His movies are the reflection of what movies have to offer.
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i liked gangs of new york :(
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She was pretty good as a psychopath in The Roommate and she's primo eye candy.
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For kids!
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preferred more of the bald Irish guy shouting they'll be no niggery here! In fact that should have been his superhero catchphrase. Every time he entered a scene- No!! They'll be no niggery here!!!
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I'd like to see it set in the 50's rather then modern day. Take it back to the birth of the teenager and rock and roll. Like Grease but without the songs and a lot more blood and cruelty
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The best of the bunch - 1982s "Zapped" with Scott Baio and Willie Aames
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Spacik never had a nose job.
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YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
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Wearing green spandex looking very effeminate and fey. Is this somewho supposed to entice people to watch Green Lantern?
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In the book Carrie is more terrifying. His "power levels" are a lot more comic book on the pages. She destroys the whole town, not just the party, and you have the feeling he could ravage the whole continent if she didn't let herself get stabbed. (Same with the little girl from Firestarter, who - according to the book - could make the Sun go nova if she really wanted to.) If they make Carrie a global threat, hell if they put some Cloverfield like footage into it (cellphone recording of a floating girl ripping the town apart) and present her as the worst natural disaster to ever strike, this could be awesome. Get over with the drama in the first hour (it's not that original or exciting anyway) and make the thing Ronald Emmerich huge - Carrie shifting tectonic plates, vaporizing the police, blinking the military out of existence. We've seen "vengeful supernatural teen" a hundred thousand times in movies and TV. The only new thing they could bring to the table is the scale.
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At least something different.
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"HINT BIG EFFING HINT"
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May 20, 2011, 10:50 a.m. CST
De Palma's film is ICONIC and remains relevant to this day
by Nasty In The Pasty
People can snigger at the dated hairstyles and polyester tuxedoes all they want, but the underlying dissection of high school classicism remains potent to this day, and De Palma directed the FUCK out of that movie. Plus, Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie will never be topped. Re-adpting it to be "closer to the book" is pretty inane, as, like Spielbergs Jaws, De Palma's film cut through the bullshit subplots and distracting "scrapbook" sctructure of Stephen King's book and plucked out all of the best stuff and junked what didn't work. Show ANY modern teenager the original Carrie, and I guarantee once they get their jokes about the "dated" look of the film out of the way early on, they'll be riveted.
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forget about it...
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carrie 2.
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We needs to see some big ol' dirty pillows...
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May 20, 2011, 10:58 a.m. CST
And the only choice to play Carrie is: Johnny Depp
by Damned if I can login
Why not? He's in damned near everything else.
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Let's just start calling them reabortions instead
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I would watch this. Get Kat Dennings to play Carrie. She has that borderline kinda hot yet kinda strange look about her, and I want to see her dirty pillows in that silk dress. Carrie was much more powerful in the book than she was inthe film, surely due to budget constraints. The parts about rocks raining down on the house when a very young Carrie sees the next door neighbor sunbathing nude was left out, as well as several other scenes.
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Untouchable, in my eyes. But it's the kind of perfect that stays perfect no matter what else is done with the source material -- I doubt that any attempt to adapt it will be as good a film as De Palma's. So, you know, whatevs.
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Seriously. Why remake this AGAIN? The book isn't THAT MUCH different that a more "faithful" version is warranted. Boooooooooooring. Oooooooo-eeee. Wud up wit dat? Wud up wit dat?
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I thought the trailers now days were bad at keeping a lid on the plot, but that one showed nearly all the important parts.
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Come on Hollywood. There are new ideas out there. Or even different books out there to copy.
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WTF? Are they serious?
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May 20, 2011, 12:01 p.m. CST
If we're listing awesome De Palma films, please do not forget "Sisters"...
by WriteForTheEdit
...and I'd throw in "Body Double," too. (But I wouldn't argue that one terribly hard, either.)
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CARRIE is a freakin' classic with great performances (and hey, there's Travolta!) and terrific music. De Palma is the Master and do not fuckin' touch this masterpiece! I know, I know it will be more faithful to the book...well, fuck off! Lousy excuse I say. Go, make something original! Jesus...I'm pissed off now.
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May 20, 2011, 12:22 p.m. CST
nasty in the pasty - not only a comment on high school classicism,
by openthepodbaydoorshal
but an examination of feminine power in general. All activity in the movie in generated by the girls and the women in the cast. The boys and men are all ineffectual (impotent?) in their understanding of what is happening, or are acting under the influence of their girlfriends. It's truly girls gone wild. I only wish DePalma would have kept his love of split screen (which I love in Sisters and his stylized use of split lenses in Blow Out) out of the prom climax. It is well orchestrated, but is a distraction, for me at least.
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And somewhere, Brian De Palma is laughing his head off.
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But then again, that movie was a remake.
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May 20, 2011, 12:34 p.m. CST
I'm reminded of the the Shining tv movie. Not to mention Lord of the Rings.
by Royston Lodge
Sometimes stuff from the books are cut for a reason. I shudder to imagine how shitty the LotR movies would be with all the Tom Bombadil scenes left intact.
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May 20, 2011, 12:37 p.m. CST
Bashing brian De Palma just proves you know nothing about film and cinema.
by AsimovLives
It also means you have to hand over your geek card, because it's revoked for life.
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May 20, 2011, 12:53 p.m. CST
Someone mentioned Jaws - its a perfect example
by openthepodbaydoorshal
The fat was cut from the book; did we really need the Chief"s wife getting a nooner from Hooper? The lean was kept.
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May 20, 2011, 12:58 p.m. CST
So this will somehow feature at least 1 Twilight cast member......
by performingmonkey
The girl will most definitely play Carrie like a pseudo-Kristen Stewart who, if we're lucky, might have two whole facial expressions - constipated and....more constipated!!
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May 20, 2011, 1:06 p.m. CST
I shudder to imagine if they'd kept the Mafia subplot from Jaws.
by Royston Lodge
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May 20, 2011, 1:06 p.m. CST
...or if the subplot about Sonny's freakishly large penis was kept in The Godfather.
by Royston Lodge
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May 20, 2011, 1:26 p.m. CST
When is Hollywood going to remake bad movies into good movies.
by Ingeld
Instead of good movies into bad movies?
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I'd go Alice Krige as her mother, tho Sissy Spacek is a great call for ole times sake. Leave this well alone though. The original movie is pitch-perfect as it is, the sequel and the TV remake both sucked the fat one, and there's already been a musical adaptation (and that was as much a disaster as SPIDERMAN: KILL OFF THE FRANCHISE threatens to be).
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Michael Caine sure as hell didn't help the Sleuth remake.
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As someone above so succinctly opined, apparently the way to turn a bad movie into a good one is to show more big ol' dirty pillows. <P> One can only imagine what perverse things *Damned if i can login* does with dirty laundry while watching Sissie Flatchest.
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The Video Dead comes to mind. Frankenhooker is another flick. The Thing with Two heads. Time Walker. Robot Monster. Terrorvision.
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That's all I got.
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Id pay to see that
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The only differences I remember was some flashback scenes from when Carrie was a child. One in particular, which would make a cool scene, was when she made it rain boulders from teh sky and destroy her house.
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Looked like more wangs than guts. Didnt know it was a wang movie.
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May 20, 2011, 6:50 p.m. CST
I own Munchies on LD!!! I think Munchies was one of the most faithful adaptations of a novel ever now that I think about it.
by replica
We need more grannies in muscle cars drag racing with Ghoulie rip offs if you ask me. 3D can suck it.
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Steal at will.
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Instead of guns, shotguns and/or home-made bombs, she uses telekinesis. In addition to her tormentors, she kills the ones backing her up. I never liked the idea in the original movie, so I never saw Carrie as a heroine or justified. Only a kid given a gun with no idea how to wield it justly. At least in the "sequel", the ones killed mainly seemed like assholes and many unknowns could get away. Anyway, if they do a remake, at least stress the aftermath of this on the town like King did in the book. If there's one thing you notice about King's books is that he usually stresses what all the supernatural events did to the survivors.
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May 20, 2011, 9:21 p.m. CST
Even De Palma regretted using split-screens in Carrie
by Nasty In The Pasty
Supposedly, he was dissatisfied with the effect, but had blocked certain shots so they'd only work via split-screen, so he was forced to keep some of them in the movie (although he pruned out what he could).
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Set in the 50's is a great idea. While the aftermath is a major focus of the book, and would give give it an extra layer of drama I would like to see, how would that be accomplished in a way that does not use voice over, flashbacks, and television news coverage-like gimmicks?
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May 20, 2011, 9:52 p.m. CST
Carrie should be a fag in the new movie and his cock can control stuff - mostly other cocks and guy's mouths
by Professor_Monster
Leave the intro though. Have the guy go on the rag and all the dudes in the locker room pelt him with tampons.
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May 20, 2011, 10:06 p.m. CST
Get De Palma and remake it with the exact same cast
by Margot Tenenbaum
like some weird-ass Brady Bunch movie thing where they're clueless about being 60-year-old high school students.
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THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!!
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I've been waiting over twenty friggin' years. I'll never forgive Spielberg for sitting on the rights and not directing it himself. He'd be the perfect director for it. Either that or get HBO to do a three-season miniseries. Bastards.
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They should have made it a tv series where they try to find other mutants like the girl from Fire Starters and that guy from Dead Zone. Or those people in The Fury.
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May 21, 2011, 8:03 a.m. CST
"When is Hollywood going to remake bad movies into good movies." Agree.
by AsimovLives
Star Trek certainly needs that badly.
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May 21, 2011, 8:04 a.m. CST
Who was it that said that only bad movies should be remade?
by AsimovLives
Because that sound slike a very good advise. Well, occasionally, a remake of a good movie can work, like John Carpenter's THE THING. But such exceptions are so few and far between they barely count.
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I think the boulders rain is referenced in dialogue in the movie Carrie.
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Both the dismal sequel and the re-adaption tele-film (also allegedly more true to the King novel) seemed superfluous. De Palma did a good job with the original and Piper and Spacek were awesome in their parts. Still, if you wanted to update it, I don't know where you'd want to go with it, exactly. The character Carrie was downtrodden and noted for wearing the same homemade looking clothes every day, aside from being awkward. The mother was a religious zealot. Those performances are already top notch. Why mess with a classic?
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...why the daughter is apparently from the American south and the mother is pretending to be British.
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Not sure what kind of fat cutting happened there for the movie. What DePalma did was essentially craft a dramatic narrative onto a story premise that King told in faux eyewitness flashbacks and fake newspaper clippings. Not that the King book wasn't good, but it was a different thing. DePalma pretty much took the source material and went further with it, a type of re-write or re-imagining if you will.
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and your lame remake....
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