The Prime Video sequence primarily based on Stephen King’s Carrie has stuffed out its core solid.
Summer season Howell (Cult of Chucky, Hallmark’s Crashing By means of the Snow) is enjoying the title function within the drama, a teen with newly rising telekinetic talents. Samantha Sloyan (The Pitt) will star alongside Howell as Margaret White, Carrie’s domineering mom. Alison Thornton, Thalia Dudek, Siena Agudong, Amber Midthunder, Josie Totah, Arthur Conti, Joel Oulette and Matthew Lillard have additionally joined the solid.
Prime Video ordered the sequence in April, with Mike Flanagan (Physician Sleep, The Haunting) set as author and showrunner. Flanagan has tailored a number of of King’s works previously; along with The Shining sequel Physician Sleep, he wrote the screenplays for The Lifetime of Chuck and Gerald’s Recreation (teaming with Jeff Howard on the latter) and directed all three movies.
Prime Video has described the sequence, in growth since late 2024, as a “daring and well timed reimagining” of King’s story.
Sloyan and Flanagan are frequent collaborators: She has had roles in Gerald’s Recreation and Flanagan’s sequence The Fall of the Home of Usher, The Midnight Membership, Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill Home.
Carrie is predicated on King’s first novel, printed in 1974 and tailored a number of instances since, most famously by Brian De Palma for a 1976 movie that starred Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Flanagan is government producing the Prime Video sequence with Trevor Macy of Intrepid Footage. Amazon MGM Studios, the place each Flanagan and Macy have total offers, is producing.
Thornton (College Spirits) will play Chris Hargensen within the sequence. Dudek (Physician Who) performs Emaline. Agudong (Sidelined: The QB and Me) will play Sue Snell. Midthunder (Prey, Legion) is enjoying Miss Desjardin. Totah (The Buccaneers) will play Tina. Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) performs Billy. Oulette (My Life With the Walter Boys) will play Tommy, and Lillard (The Lifetime of Chuck, Good Ladies) will play Principal Grayle.
Howell is repped by The Characters Expertise Company and Hyperlink Leisure; Sloyan, by SDB Companions, 11:11 Leisure and Goodman Genow; Thornton, by Amplified, Pink Administration and legal professional Douglas R. Stone; Dudek, by Impartial Expertise Group within the U.Okay., 42 within the U.S., and Collective Expertise in Australia; Agudong, by Gersh, Trilogy Expertise and Hirsch Wallerstein; Midthunder, by CAA, Nook Sales space Leisure, Jackoway Austen and 2PM Sharp; Totah, by Gersh, Leisure 360 and Imprint; Conti, by WME, The Artist Partnership, Shelter PR and Myman Greenspan; Oulette, by Darryl Mork Expertise Administration; and Lillard, by Verve, Strand Leisure and Heller Regulation.