Deadline is reporting that helmer Kimberly Peirce is in talks to remake the Stephen King thriller ‘Carrie.’ The helmer made her directorial debut with ‘Boys Don’t Cry.’ She followed the coming of age tragedy with 2008’s Iraq War drama ‘Stop-Loss.’
Previously adapted by Brian De Palma, the 1976 film starred Sissy Spacek as the telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students. John Travolta, Amy Irving, and Piper Laurie co-starred.
The remake has been penned by playwright, screenwriter and comic-book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and is said to be more faithful to the King book, and more grounded than the De Palma film.