The primary trailer for the “Carrie” miniseries, tailored by the horror filmmaker and Stephen King connoisseur Mike Flanagan, debuted tonight at San Diego Comedian-Con 2026. The one minute lengthy trailer reveals occasions followers of the story will acknowledge: There is a close-up of Carrie White (Summer time H. Howell) having been topped promenade queen, and whereas we do not see the second the place pigs’ blood drops on her, there’s snippets of the aftermath. (Together with a foot-level shot of Carrie in a blood-soaked gown, or an auditorium on hearth and stuffed with Carrie’s lifeless classmates.)
There are additionally flashes of how Flanagan is perhaps updating or stretching out the story. It seems imply woman Chris Hargensen (Alison Thornton), who masterminds the bloody promenade prank, as soon as tried (truthfully or not) to be pals with Carrie. It is also proven that, presumably after inciting embarrassment when Carrie will get her first interval within the college showers, some bullies make a “carrie pink” Instagram account; that a minimum of accounts for the way youngsters bully one another within the 2020s.
However different photographs within the trailer point out Flanagan will probably be lifting one factor from King’s authentic “Carrie” novel that not one of the earlier movies have. These photographs present Carrie’s hometown of Chamberlain, Maine on hearth. Within the novel, Carrie would not simply use her telekinesis to get revenge on the individuals laughing at her within the auditorium. On her method dwelling, she rampages throughout the total city, triggering a fuel line explosion that sends Chamberlain primary road up in flames. Carrie’s closing physique depend within the e book is round 440, in comparison with a “mere” 73 in essentially the most well-known film adaptation, Brian De Palma’s traditional 1976 “Carrie.” (Not that King minds the variations; he is bought nothing however reward for De Palma’s “Carrie.”)
Carrie’s rampage is way worse within the authentic novel
Stephen King’s “Carrie” is an epistolary novel, which means a lot of the story is informed as in-universe reporting on Carrie’s promenade evening rampage. The novel transitions backwards and forwards between instant third particular person, previous tense segments of the characters residing Carrie’s final days within the second, after which segments of newspaper articles, tell-all books, congressional testimony transcripts, tutorial journals and many others. In the direction of the novel’s finish, Carrie’s rampage is described each because it occurs in addition to by survivors who recount what they noticed.
The novel’s construction is to underline that folks in-universe try to succeed in an understanding of what occurred that evening, and the way these conclusions are sometimes fallacious. In-universe, Carrie is broadly seen as a monster, whereas the novel provides us a glimpse into the top of an ostracized, abused younger woman.
The epilogue pages of “Carrie” underline that Carrie White principally destroyed Chamberlain, full-stop, and never simply by burning key parts of it down. She killed so many individuals, together with virtually your entire highschool graduating class, that the city simply could not recuperate. Many households moved away, companies closed, and by the top of the story, it is on its option to changing into a ghost city.
The cinematic model of the novel’s construction can be a mockumentary or discovered footage movie. The one “Carrie” adaptation that is tried one thing even resembling that is the maligned 2002 “Carrie” TV movie written by Bryan Fuller. (It has been rumored the 2013 “Carrie” remake shot scenes that includes components like this, but when that is true, they had been lower and have not surfaced.)
It is nonetheless unclear if Flanagan’s will use this construction, both, however he a minimum of appears to be like to be lastly adapting the total scale of Carrie’s carnage.
“Carrie” premieres on October 7, 2026 on Prime Video.
