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Kimberley Pierce In Talks To Direct The Remake Of Stephen King's 'Carrie'

With the year 2012 not even a week old, some more ramblings of yet another remake are making today's headlines.

According to Deadline, Kimberly Peirce is in talks to direct Carrie, the remake of the Stephen King novel which was previously adapted twice before. Once to the big screen in 1976, and in 2002 for TV.



Peirce (pictured below) is best known for helming Boy's Don't Cry, which won actress Hilary Swank an Oscar for Best Actress in 2000.



Carrie was previously turned into the 1976 film that starred ssy Spacek, John Travolta and Amy Irving, with Piper Laurie as the represve mother. The script has been written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, whose rewrite work helped save Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark on Broadway. Aguirre-Sacasa set out to write a veron of Carrie that is more faithful to the King book, and more grounded than the Brian De Palma-directed film. That kind of grounded material is something Peirce does well. She last directed Stop-Loss and is repped at CAA.

The question now lies - do we really need yet another adaption of Carrie?

Source:

Deadline

No, we don't need another Carrie. that's my answer to the question above...DePalma's film was the best veron, ssy Spacek and all the other castmembers were perfect for the film, as was the soundtrack and camerawork. It's the same like having Jaws remade, or ( as we've already learned) Psycho. If the story isn't the complete oppote of the original, then we just keep comparing the remake with the original..it's not a new experience..and Spacek will always be the best played Carrie White I've known