While the 1976 Brian De Palma (Scarface) original is often heralded as a true horror classic, MGM and Screen Gems are hoping to both improve upon, and cash in on, its success, by commissioning a remake to be written by playwright/comic-book author Roberto Aguirre Sacasa.
Sacasa was recently drafted to try and save the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, will have a writer/producer’s gig on the next season of Glee, and will now be attempting to script a remake of Carrie that stays much closer to the original Stephen King novel than De Palma’s movie did.
Carrie follows a young girl named Carrie White (played in the original by Sissy Spacek) who’s bullied at home by her extremely religious and oppressive mother, and bullied in school by just about everyone else, until the local teens go too far when they dump pigs blood on her at the senior prom; causing the troubled teen to unleash her telekinetic powers in an awesome, and highly violent, display of bloody vengeance.
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: Deadline.
