Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ Series Ordered by Amazon

April 10, 2025

Fill up those blood buckets, Amazon Prime Video has officially ordered Carrie to series.

The series, like the 1976 film, is based on the 1974 Stephen King novel. Mike Flanagan will executive produce, showrun and write the eight-episode series, which he will also direct “select” episodes of, Prime Video said on Thursday. Trevor Macy will executive produce alongside Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunting of Bly Manor/Hill House).

The Carrie film followed Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother as she unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. It’s pretty bloody. The movie also starred Piper Laurie, and John Travolta was in it too.

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The Prime Video series is described as “a bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public high school, a bullying scandal that shatters her community and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”

Flanagan has adapted numerous novels from King in the past, including The Life of ChuckThe Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game. Flanagan and Macy also have rights to King’s Dark Tower novels (and they both have overall deals at Amazon MGM Studios).

Carrie is an iconic story that has withstood the test of time with continued cultural relevance,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon MGM Studios. “With Mike Flanagan at the helm and the accomplished team assembled including executive producer Trevor Macy this provocative series is sure to captivate our global customers.”

The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, which just last month ousted Jen Salke. She left with a first-look production deal for both TV and film.