FX Developing Limited Series Based on Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’

Will it be a musical? It really is due for a revival. Think Glee meets AHS!

[quote]Should be a hit on DL, no doubt.

You're kidding right? Only the original is appreciated here. This too will fail.

Yes, I was joking.

They already tried this with the 2002 version with Angela Bettis and Patricia Clarkson; it was intended to be a series but it never got picked up. I recently bought the Blu-ray that has it paired with "The Rage: Carrie 2" as a double feature, and while Bettis and Clarkson are great in it, everyone else isn't, and the special effects are truly horrid. Perhaps they can do better now, but I'm not holding my breath.

Trannie White eats shit!

So if it's a trans person playing the role, will they look like a guy for most of the show and have a guy's name? I am sorry, but there is no way in Hell Margaret White would allow a son of hers to dress in female clothing or even have it (or makeup) in the house. So is he going to hide a whole collection of clothes somewhere, go to school, get dressed in the bathroom and become "Carrie"? And also, how would the whole first period in the locker room part play out?

I just don't see how it can work. You'd have to change the story around a hell of a lot. And in that case, why even bother calling it Carrie?

[quote]Carrie White will likely be played by either a trans performer or an actress of color

Why not both? Blossom would be up for it, I'm sure.

Why not bring back all the original actors and do something where Carrie and her mother have been resurrected? That’s the only way I would watch.

They won't do it right because Millennials are terrified of being uncool. They'll make her a pretty cheerleader and her mom a hot milf.

Can we get Sissy Spacek to play the mother?

"We're so sorry, Cassie... we all said. 'What happened to her...'"

"USE MY CORRECT FUCKING PRONOUNS!!!"

*glass telekinetically shatters*

So if they're making Carrie trans, I am imagining Margaret White constantly slapping around a little twink saying "You are not a girl! You are a man. So act like it, you godless sodomite!" Then the prom will be him stepping out as "his true self" for the first time like in his Caitlyn Jenner "Call me Carrie" moment in a very dramatic way.

Gym class. Chris Hargensen will ask "why doesn't Carrie get dressed with the rest of us?" Then she and a few others will sneak over to wherever she is in the locker room and see a dick. That'll be the "period" moment of this version I bet.

OMG I thought you all were joking when you said Carrie would be trans until I read the article! This trans shot is getting out of control!!!! There are more roles for trans characters than gay men these days!!!

I can see your dirty pillows.

To make millennials happy, Carrie should be played by a bisexual trans non-binary black quadriplegic.

R12, I would pay to see that. Instant cult classic!

Troye Sivan for Carrie, Margeurite Perrin The God Warrior as Margaret.

Chloe Grace Moretz was way too pretty to be Carrie. Angela Bettis did a good job playing Carrie but Sissy can't be beat.

This is going to be such pandering shit.

The 1976 original is classic. Why bother?

If the trans person is playing a TRANS CHARACTER - CARRIE - then a trans Carrie seems deeply anti-trans and cruel. Carrie is both a victim and a hideous monster. That is not a woke image for trans.

Wipe that smirk off your face, Norma at r5.

Uh, is Trans Carrie going to still get her period at beginning?

Who will play Magaret White if Carrie is black? Adina Porter? Angela Bassett? Viola Davis? Octavia Spencer? La Toya Jackson?

Monique and Gabourey Sidibe should re-unite for this. Mariah as the gym teacher.

"That big bitch moved the pigs feet and collard greens with her mind!"

[Quote] telekinetic teen Carrie White will likely be played by either a trans performer or an actress of color rather than a cis white woman, as in past adaptations.

Period bump. 🤭

Trans Carrie, as other have stated, would make no sense with Margaret as a mother. Is she going to be seeing her dresses at night while her mother prays and slip them into a backpack and change into them at school?

A black Carrie would make more sense and at least give us the chance to see a titan like Monique, Viola Davis, or Octavia Spencer sink her teeth into Margaret.

They keep remaking Carrie because it's a story about bullying which is a hot topic.

So tiresome. Stop these remakes!

No need for the pigs' blood in this version.

Someone at the prom just "deadnames" xyr and the whole gym explodes.

Instead of dousing her with a bucket of blood, someone will use the wrong pronoun.

R22, s/he'll freak out because s/he hasn't got his/her period yet and still hasn't grown any tits.

I read it won't be a white girl playing Carrie but a black girl or a transgirl.

I suppose you can do Carrie with a black girl (frankly it would be better if HW decides to adapt novels of the many great afroamerican writers intead of changing the race of a white character) without a problem, but a transgirl is very very problematic.

The first period scene is iconic and a big part of the story, but how can you be openly trans with a mother like that, she is ultrareligious, there's no way she let trans Carrie were girl clothes.

I don't know, but this sound like typical woke idea and this kind of films end being total disasters

Could Margaret be sort of like Aunt Martha in Sleepaway Camp? Maybe she finds out her son is gay somehow so she forces him to dress up like a girl because "anything is better than the sin of homosexuality." That is the only way I can see it maybe working. But I don't see how they can pull off something like that without pissing off a bunch of people. It is too big of a risk in my opinion and it wouldn't be worth it.

R34, Insidious: Chapter 2 did something similar to that but it was 6, almost 7 years ago and a lot has changed in even that short time. I wouldn't dare attempt it now. By making Carrie trans, you are just begging for trouble.

NOT ALL WOMEN HAVE PERIODS!

R34: In which universe a fanatic religious woman prefer to have a trans daughter than a gay son? Most of those people are big hypocrites who care a lot of what other people think. You can hide a gay son but you can't hide a trans daughter.

And Carrie's mother was not the type that solve a gay son problem making him wear girls clothes, she was the one who send him to a conversion therapy camp to put him in god's path again

I hope these three ladies make cameo appearances in the new version.

Nancy Allen (Chris), Piper Laurie (Margaret White), and P.J. Soles (Norma).

So instead of yelling "Plug it up! Plug it up!", the girls will be yelling "Chop it off! Chop it off!"

I wish FX invested in a The Americans series spin off! Theres so many ideas they can use. Beeman and Henry and Paige angle. Life in Russia for Philip and Elizabeth Jennings. So stupid to not take advantage of these storylines.

I watch it if they brought back Edie McKlurg to do sit-ups!

R38 they all look pretty good.

Erm, how will they convince anyone to take trans Carrie to the prom once it is known that she’s trans? Trans Carrie would be STUPID to fall for that!

Why don’t they just leave Carrie alone? None of the remakes have ever been any good.

Maybe they can get JK Rowling to play Miss Collins.

R41 Edie McClurg has dementia and sadly won't be with us for much longer.

{sigh} So can we finally put to bed the claim that telekenesis has never been real it's all just made up shit.

[quote]In which universe a fanatic religious woman prefer to have a trans daughter than a gay son? Most of those people are big hypocrites who care a lot of what other people think. You can hide a gay son but you can't hide a trans daughter.

This universe dear. Most of the kids “transitioning” these days would otherwise grow up to be gay or lesbian (80%). You’re really not paying attention to this shit are you? Better a live daughter than a dead son is the catchphrase.

Look up Hunter Schaefer. Dad is a pastor. Hunter came out as gay at around age 11. Then at 13 he’s suddenly trans and a “girl”.

There’s an FTM who was raised in a fundamentalist evangelical household, Mallory Ortberg, who writes the Dear Prudence column. She was a lesbian in spite of her strict religious upbringing and pastor dad... until a few years ago. Now she’s “Daniel” and married to a man who claims he’s a woman. There’s another FTM out there, evangelical, went to one of those bible colleges, now thinks she’s a man because it’s easier to be trans (bc you can’t help it) than being gay.

R47: A cathphrase for who? A couple of lunatics doesn't make things different, most people, even the most tolerant have a lot of trouble dealing with a trans son of daughter. But that wasn't even the matter, we are talking about a very conservative religious lunatic, Carrie's mother would never let his son wear girl clothes, period

[quote]A cathphrase for who?

The UK trans charity Mermaids. The one preaching this backwards shit. The one run by an insane woman who bragged about getting her gay son’s penis cut off when he was 16– that his junk was so small thanks to puberty blockers they didn’t have enough tissue to invert it. They’re hosting “awareness” seminars throughout the British police force on trans issues like boys can only like GI Joe and girls can only like Barbie.

Wake the fuck up.

Yes, there are insane people out there, but that's not a trend or a majority or anything like that

Creepy Tranny! Creepy Tranny!

Maybe they could get Schuyler Fisk to guest star.

Tranny Carrie, Tranny Carrie!

Margaret: "You're a woman now."

Carrie:"Now? What do you mean 'now'? I was always a woman, you transphobe."

Just because a trans actress could be playing Carrie doesn’t mean the character will be trans too. The character can still be a ciswoman and simply be played by a transwoman.

Why would a trans person even want to play a role where she goes insane and murders an entire town? I thought they only wanted "positive representation."

I always thought Carrie: The Musical should have been rewritten for a black Southern Baptist holy roller and her daughter.

R12 and r30 need to get together and collaborate because I smell box office gold!

No more "Eve was weak". From now on, it will be "Caitlyn was weak".

Going with people of color for Carrie and Margaret could still work and they wouldn't have to change a word of the story. The trans thing would make absolutely no sense. I guess just casting a trans person and still playing her as cis would give Carrie that "other" kind of quality, which could work. I just want a good actress in the role. That Chloe Moretz is cute, but she wasn't right for Carrie.