Carrie’s story has been told several times as a movie. But come this Fall, it is being told as it has never been told before. Prime Video is giving us eight episodes so we can truly see what made her go all nuclear at the prom.
Based on Stephen King’s iconic debut novel, Carrie is a bold, timely, and surprising reinvention of the classic coming of age story, adapted as a television series for the first time by visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan. The series follows misfit high schooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) who has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.
The horror drama based on Steven King’s book makes like pig’s blood and drops on October 7th.
HBO Max just released the first full trailer for It: Welcome to Derry, and the It prequel looks frightening. So frightening, it makes the It movies look like a children’s party!
The streamer has been pretty hush-hush about what the series will focus on besides Pennywise’s past, and now we know why. The more mysterious, the better…and creepier like the killer clown’s smile.
Welcome to Derry scares your screens starting on October 26th.
We never know what is going to come out of Stephen King’s mind, and The Long Walk is another example of that.
In a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, a group of young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.
RULES OF THE WALK:
Total participants: 50
Required pace to maintain: 3 MPH
If participants fall below the required pace, they will get a warning. If they are unable to reach the speed within 10 seconds, they will get an additional warning.
Total warnings: 3
Note: Participants are eliminated before a 4th warning is called.
How far could you go? How far will they go? That we will find out on September 12th.
We’ve seen Pennywise terrorize the kids of Derry in It and It: Chapter Two, but that was only after he had taken several of their lives over a few decades.
This Fall, we are going to see how he terrified the town in 1962, and it is going to be even scarier than we thought.
The series is being brought to life by Andy and Barbara Muschietti, who reimagined It for the big screen. The siblings pondered Pennywise’s past, and now they are adapting that nightmare for the small screen.
It: Welcome to Derry will air on HBO and stream on Max, I mean HBO Max. I don’t know what is scarier: that Warner Bros can’t figure out what to call their streaming service or the teaser trailer. The former, definitely the former.
