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Here's A Pic Of Chloe Moretz In Costume As CARRIE...
SplashNewsOnline nabbed a snapshot of Chloe Moretz on the set of CARRIE.
From the sound of it, this isn't a remake of Brian De Palma's iconic 1976 picture as much as a re-adaptation of the Stephen King book by which De Palma's movie was inspired (a la the Coen's re-adaptation of TRUE GRIT). Another adaptation starring Angela Bettis in the title role (a TV movie, specifically) happened 'round 2002.
Here's Moretz in Carrie attire (presumably a BTS shot), in the new project directed by Kimberly Peirce (BOYS DON'T CRY, STOP-LOSS, THE L-WORD).
It's due in theaters March 2013 - with a score by HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON's John Powell. I really like Powell's work, especially his thematically driven material, but I can't recall ever hearing him spin a straight-up horror score. Considering the nature of the material and the director involved here, I'll bet he'll score to the emotional undercurrent of the tale as opposed to falling back to creepier approaches. We'll see...
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do we need another Carrie?
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June 28, 2012, 8:34 a.m. CST
watch out! she's gonna send a text that will make your head explode!
by Spandau Belly
Oh, and where's the remake of GLEAMING THE CUBE?
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June 28, 2012, 8:34 a.m. CST
No way would Carrie's mother let her use a cell phone.
by Jessica white
Not that I really care. The novel was trash, the film was trash, and this will be trash. Stephen King doesn't understand the first thing about women - let alone how to write them.
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We might as well get used to that fact.
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June 28, 2012, 8:39 a.m. CST
And by dudes I mean Hillary Swank in Boys Don't Cry drag
by Samuel Fulmer
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This is my theory on why remakes exist...mind you, this does not go for all of them... I believe they use them to test an actor/actress or director to see how artistically gifted they are. Can they bring something new to the genre? Can they make something interesting that we have seen before? If they succeed, it is a test that they have passed. Look at Nolan, the film before Batman he did was a remake of "Insomnia". He brought such a beauty to that film and I think the critical and financial success of that film is what finalized the decision to give him Batman. Many of the directors who are not major players who get remakes and fail, you never really hear from them again. Wiesman though will still be working no matter if this thing is a success or failure
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With all these remakes, I'm getting to keep a lot more money in my pocket since I have zero interest in going to see them.
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She was a cheating whore.
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June 28, 2012, 8:58 a.m. CST
Oh my God! She has a iphone and sunglasses! Carrie's mom would never allow that!
by adeceasedfan
Umm...I guess you think this is a still from the movie? Not a paparazzi shot. Better let Quint save this for a future BTSPOTD.
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June 28, 2012, 9:02 a.m. CST
I don't think she'll have a phone and glasses in the flick, think this is more of a bts shot
by sonnyfern
I hope the movie ends the way the book does, there were huge sections left out of the DePalma flick and it'll be nice to see that added back in. I love that movie, but I hope the goofy humor goes away too.
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She's on set, she's not actively filming. Don't think the shades and cell belong to the character. Slightly amazed that it requires an explanation, but there you go.
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beat me to it. :)
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June 28, 2012, 9:03 a.m. CST
gender_bender, maybe it's one of those ones where you can only call, like, your parents or the police on it.
by spacehog
You know, a Firefly or a Jitterbug or a...they're all named after bugs I think. I don't know why I'm trying to think of an in-universe justification for what's clearly just Moretz holding her own phone while not filming. ...Seriously, what am I doing with my life.
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There is no way that this movie will capture the sheer uncomfortability (?) of DePalma's. I love Chloe, but she is WAY too pretty to pull off Carrie. I mean Sissy looked pretty in the prom dress, but it was that dainty, fragile, awkward pretty. The original is totally dated, but that sort of adds to the creepiness of it. Julianne Moore is great, but she has her work cut out for her, too.
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I really hope this film addresses that fact because it might have something interesting to say. A straight adaption of King's book would be dated. Could be interesting if Carrie is the victim on online bullying but she can't fight back due to her nutjob mom not letting her have a computer, phone etc. Then again, they probably won't work any of this into the script. And agreed with filmbuff82 about Chloe being too pretty. Am I even allowed to say that?
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Thought it woulda been Barbara Hershey, fresh from her crazy mom in Black Swan... guess that would be typecasting. I'm okay with Chloe...haven't seen the original in awhile...might be time.
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Wishful thinking.
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Sissy Spacek is a pretty woman, but she's unconventionally pretty and was able to look weird enough in the film that you could believe the bullying and the subsequent isolation. Moretz is a good actress, but her physical presence is gonna take people out of the film.
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Moretz woud be unable to avoid having friends in high school, even if she wore uncool clothes.
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is jerking off to this picture.
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...also doubles as a state-of-the-art Ladyshave.
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Costuming and Makeup are gonna have their work cut out for them to make THIS chick into a believable Carrie... http://tinyurl.com/6sbkxk9 http://tinyurl.com/7vn7rvx
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June 28, 2012, 9:49 a.m. CST
victim on online bullying but she can't fight back due to her nutjob mom not letting her have a computer
by Samuel Fulmer
Which would mean you couldn't read the comments, thus not be bullied right????
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I mean it's cool that they went with someone who's not older than the character, but still.....
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June 28, 2012, 10:06 a.m. CST
re: "Which would mean you couldn't read the comments, thus not be bullied right????"
by jim
It's like people talking behind your back. Without you there to defend yourself, they can say whatever they want until it gets to the point where many simply believe whatever they hear to be true. It also allows for inside jokes - one word uttered in a room full of people has everyone but you laughing (at you). For others, the online taunts and insults are a testing ground to refine and perfect the taunts and insults they will personally deliver the next day at school.
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Like the TV remake of The Shining, the TV remake of Carrie had it's advantages & disadvantages over the original film. Angela Bettis was perfectly cast in Carrie, but played a very similar personality in Lucky KcKee's May. Bettis in May gives one of the all-time best performances in a horror film. You feel for her and you take her hand and she totally drags you down into madness with her.
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June 28, 2012, 10:09 a.m. CST
3 more yrs before I can write my true opinions about this actress. Until then, let's just call her talented.
by AzulTool
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June 28, 2012, 10:11 a.m. CST
You don't have to read online flames not to be effected by them
by Nasty In The Pasty
The internet is basically the modern-day equvilent of scrawling something nasty on the bathroom wall, and even if the object of corn doesn't see the comments personally, the damage will still get passed onto her via the high school grapevine. It actually IS a neat idea to add the idea of cyberbullying and having Carrie be unable to keep up to date on what's being said about her because her mother refuses to have a computer or allow her to have a cell phone (which, to this generation, is like arriving at school with a missing hand). Also cool news about John Powell writing the score...he's the one graduate of the Hans Zimmer sausage factory who actually has a grasp of melody and structure. Plus, he's never done an out-and-out horror movie before, so it'll be a fresh assignment for him.
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June 28, 2012, 10:14 a.m. CST
samuel fulmer, the effects would actually be worse (as others have chimed in)
by P
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Sit up straight boys, your about to be schooled. Also, when the "Carrie" trailer is released, someone PLEASE add the Banana Splits song to it. Thanks.
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I'm waiting for the 2030 remake with a young AI Holographic Katherine Hepburn in the role of Carrie.
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i like the idea of taking a story and retelling it for every generation and hopefully it makes the current gen look up the older version(s) to see what they're like too. musicals and plays, particularly shakespeare's stuff is a great example of this. the problem is which films are being chosen to get remade. they keep choosing the most iconic, most well executed films that were such a perfect combination of cast and crew, released at just the right time in history to make a big impact and guess what, remaking it with a different cast, crew, setting it in 'present day' and usually having a dumbed down for pg-13s script, you end up with a piece of shit. what a surprise.
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OBJECT OF CORN! Best typo evah.
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This has bomb written all over it.
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June 28, 2012, 11:04 a.m. CST
She's one of those child actors that you compare all other child actors to, and think they're horrible.
by happybunni
Her and Dakota Fanning. Everytime I see a kid act in a TV show or movie or whatever, it's obvious that Dakota/Chloe are just in a different league
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June 28, 2012, 12:01 p.m. CST
I disagree with you Wookie...but God Damn that was a funny post
by conspiracy
"Face like a Fruit Bat"...fucking priceless.
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The scariest thing about De Palma's Carrie was that spooky image of Sissy Spacek's blue eyes staring out from her blood-covered face. Saoirse Ronan has a similar eerie, almost ethereal look. And she's a much better actress.
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Sissy Spacek (fantastic name if you happen to lisp, by the way) was great in that role simply because she was 'plain'. The girl in the above picture looks like she's in the same category as the 'geeky' character in rom-coms...in other words, pretty hot but made to wear glasses and a brace until the final moments where she reveals herself to be a swan and not an ugly duckling afterall... ahh. Another pointless remake.
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...that alone will make it interesting. Sissy Spacek was 27 and Angela Bettis was 29 when they played Carrie.
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It's a time capsule movie and works perfectly. It's a classic. A 70s masterwork along side taxi driver, jaws, the conversation. A document of an era. Classic film making
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...its time we all accept the fact that women are routinely treated like shit... ...we must atone for how we treat these beautiful, fragile creatures... ...women are a gift, they are, a gift we mortals do not deserve... ...its so hard for women because not only are they being raped and abused by every single man they come into contact with, they're also humiliated and oppressed by their fellow sisters... ...even their own MOTHERS try to cage the remarkable plumage of their hearts... ...bow your heads and pay respect, you pathetic children... ...the blood of your crimes against females will choke and murder you in sleep and dreams... ...thus says the Lord... ...Amen.
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The whole 'source material' thing is just hollywood spindoctor horseshit. Its being remade because its fucking Carrie, stupid.
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probably a billion. Pass.
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naked, and with a can of beer.
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because mommy is not around at the moment. She's at church in the basement of their house, freaking out, pulling her own hair. I'm actually looking forward to this. Both Chloe and Julianne Moore will do a killer job.
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pointless and oversexualized and too glossy
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Hollywood spin or not. It's a remake of the original Stephen King novel, in turn a new screenplay. This is the same damn argument from many months ago about David Fincher's adaptation of GWTDT. Same reasoning then, same reasoning now. Ain't any Hollywood spin. Just a simple fact...
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not a shitty director! As much as I was lukewarm on 'Stop-Loss', it was only because of the gravitas of 'Boy's Don't Cry' was so powerful, all penis-punching aside
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June 28, 2012, 6:03 p.m. CST
Yeah, right. "We're not remaking Spielberg's Jaws, we're doing a new adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel." Fuck you! It's a remake.
by Mr. Pricklepants
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... call it what you want, but for most people, a film is made from a book, severeal years later, they make it again, remake. I get sick of thuisa reimagining, new adaptation shit. Actually most of the best ones have called themselves remakes, such as The Fly or The Thing. But the directors didn't need to get all arty in their descriptions, even though both of these films were a changed from the original films a lot more than True Grit and The Girl.... I actually liked both of these films, though not as much as their predecessors. A big problem with me for remakes is that for the most part, the remake starts with the suits. You know, the execs and accts who have ruined good movies over the last couple of decades. I just reread Easy Riders and Raging Bulls and was impressed at how hard some of these directors worked to get their visions on the screen. Comopare it to today. A studio exec looks at the properties his studio controls and assigns the film to be made. They usually pick and untested director, usually someone who's made a commercial or a music video. He is definitely hired help. If he tries to do something original, he's slapped back down, but if he's lucky, he might get a directors cut on dvd. Of course, then we watch the directors cut, and realize it weas worse than the studio cut, revealing the director to be a talentless hack anyway. Then the process repeats itself again and again(shit, just on the current homepage, we have news on the remakes of Carrie, Total Recall and Starship Troopers, what's next, a pg13 Basic Instinct?).
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Those arguing that a new version of STARSHIP TROOPERS, CARRIE, and the recent GWTDT are remakes are confusing a remake of the original source material with a remake of the actual name/title of the film, as well as people's perceptions of the name/title. Remakes are THREE MEN & A BABY, FLASHDANCE, FOOTLOOSE. Stop getting angry because you either don't like it or simply don't get it!!!
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...but if someone out there honestly has never seen a version of a 40 year old book and sets out to do their version I might agree. But if they have watched the original, they have can harp about a new "adaptation" all they want, whether it is closer to the original or not, they are remaking a film. When they say things like the original film didn't use this sceneetc, they are talking about a redo of the original film. And I stand by my opinion that most of these remakes are started by some studio asshole who just figures they can cash in on a property they own the rights to. And you know that they didn't just pick up the novel and fall in love with it. And as far os some of these guys saying some of these films will be closer to the original novel, well, sometimes that's a good thing. Two words, The Godfather. Okay, one more, Jaws.
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If I thought it was making a real effort and brought anything new. The TV Carrie didn't bring anything new, unless make Sue black counts (it doesn't) and just watered down the original. This movie will probably be as noted above, glossy and dialed down. Kinda like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. Or Nightmare on Elm Street. But much as I love the original TCM and NOES, they weren't art (maybe TCM) and De Palma's Carrie is a beautiul work of art. If, however, this movie is batshit crazy, then Im all for it.
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...IS NOT IN THE INDUSTRY. PERIOD. Some producer didn't read Stephen King's CARRIE and think "This would make a great movie"! The studio owns the rights to this property, they want to work with Chloe because she is an up and comer, the original classic did well and is in the public consciousness, add up and comer to known property (that you don't have to pay for because you own it) let the money roll in. Wash, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat... Throw in terms that fool the general populace easily like "reimagining" or "going back to the source material" LMFAO!
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...I didn't mention anything about the book's popularity. Just gave an opinion on not sticking too closely too the book. Jaws the novel is nowhere near as good as the movie. Luckily they left out the affair between Hooper and Brody's wife, and changed the ending. If I remember it right, the book had more of a Moby Dick ending, but I could be wrong. And as far as Dracula and Frankenstein, I think those are special cases, like Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes, where they have been adapted so many times it would be tough to say just what film is being remade. Of course, Hammer itself referred to their Dracula and Frankenstein as remakes of the Universal versions, also, their film The Evil of Frankenstein, being it was released by Universal, was allowed a sort of Karloff style look, not to mention that the plot seemed cribbed from both The Son of and The Ghost of Frankenstein, the 1979 version of Dracula was released by Universal and was based on the play that itself was performed by Bela Lugosi then was dusted off of Langella who seemed to be channeling Christopher Lee, and The Bride was called a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein.
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The only thing I remember about the book being vastly different was in the book, the story was told via flashbacks as the few survivors involved in "Prom night"were being interviewed /deposed in a court room or police room setting. I think Carrie's mother in the book was even more of a bible thumping nutjob, but outside of that, I didn't think the book was really all that scary. De Palma took all the beats from the book and ratcheted them up and made a great little masterpiece. And King has always pretty much said that, and especially loved De Palma's "shocking" dream sequence ending. So if they make a version of the story mnore faithful to the book, it'll come off as kind of lame when compared to the movie. Oh well, fuck it. Who wants to do a re-imagining of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, as directed by Kevin Smith and starring Nic Cage.
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Depalma clearly made his own vision of the movie. He did NOT stay true to the book. Especially the ending, don't want to reveal spoilers.
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June 28, 2012, 9:52 p.m. CST
i wonder how many people will leave after the first two mins
by kingoflight
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In this remake, Carrie is going to be one of the Olsen twins?
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They're trying hard to make her look like Sissy Spacek. The Carrie in the book was frumpy, pimply, overweight and brunette. No matter what anybody says, this is totally a remake of the film, not just some movie based off of the book.
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Than Angela Bettis the first time his was remade. I like Chloe. She's talented. But Bettis owned the role.
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my money is on her playing this just like her angst-y character in "Dark Shadows," which was an off performance.
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Carrie on her knees, getting buggered by that bloke from The Fury. Mmmm, yessss. That you should see. You must think I'm sick, right? You must think I'm sick?
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June 29, 2012, 4:45 a.m. CST
So how many of you tards think the celphone and glasses are part of her characters wardrobe?
by Wacky Packages
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June 29, 2012, 4:51 a.m. CST
DIRECTED BY KIMBERLY PIERCE!? SO MUCH FOR CARRIE: THE RE-IMAGINING.
by Wacky Packages
I bet the studios next re-imagining will be to imagine they never did this.
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June 29, 2012, 10:42 a.m. CST
Great question! Is the setting for this movie contemporary or in the 70's?
by DanielnocharismaCraig
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The ending was an attempt to throw as much at the screen as possible. <br /> <br /> Chloe's "reveal" was very slightly hinted at, but never in a way that made it clear enough anyone would have inferred that. <br /> Grahame-smith couldn't make all the different elements cohesive.
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I just noticed she looks A LOT younger there than in recent interviews and Dark Shadows. <a href="http://www.joyturk.net">joyturk</a>
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Okey, oyle olsun. www.joyturk.net
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