EXCLUSIVE: After scoring the big deal at the Toronto Film Festival with Neon for TIFF’s People’s Choice Award winner The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are right back at it. The Dish hears their next collaboration will be Carrie, this time in an eight-episode series for Amazon. Flanagan will be the showrunner…
… This would be the second recent deal in which one of King’s treasures would be given a longer storytelling road. A24 has Paul Greegrass and JH Wyman adapting King’s Fairy Tale into a series, after an earlier attempt to mount it as a movie at Universal made them realize there was just too much story to pack into one feature. The Gary Dauberman-directed Salem’s Lot was just released for Halloween…
… They’re opening a writers room, so this one’s happening quickly.
So many amazing Stephen King stories that could work as a series, why remake something that’s been remade recently already?
If anything, get a Lord of the rings size budget and make the dark tower properly
See that there is the problem.
The one big thing I would change is the last book or so. Get Stephen King out of the actual story, I found that to be the stupidest thing that series did. Same with the 9/11 connection, though not as bad as the inclusion of himself in the book, I think the 9/11 thing was a big cheap
Flanagan has the exclusive rights to make DT from King, also has a deal with Amazon now to develop new movies and series for them and Amazon has already tried to get DT done once.
It’s coming, but Amazon probably wanted something a little cheaper and easier to sell from Flanagan first.