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EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the playwright and comic book writer who was brought on to rewrite and hopefully save Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, has booked several projects to follow. On the TV side, he’ll become a co-producer and writer of the hit series Glee. And I’m told that he’s just been set by MGM and Screen Gems to write a remake of Carrie, the Stephen King thriller about the telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students. King’s bestselling book was turned into the 1976 film that starred Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Amy Irving and Piper Laurie as the repressive mother.
For Aguirre-Sacasa, these diverse projects are right in his wheelhouse. On Carrie, he will write a version that is more faithful to the King book than the earlier movie, much the same as Joel and Ethan Coen went back to the Charles Portis novel True Grit to present a version that didn’t really feel like a remake. Aguirre-Sacasa has a relationship with the author, after writing the graphic novel version of King’s The Stand, King’s seminal apocalyptic novel.
Aguirre-Sacasa was certainly an inspired choice to come aboard and try to fix the mess that was Spider-Man. He wrote the book to the Charles Strouse/Lee Adams musical It’s A Plane, It’s SUPERMAN! that was a hit at the Dallas Theatre Center, and he has also written Spider-Man comics for Marvel along with such titles as American Nightmares. The WME-repped scribe also wrote on the HBO series Big Love. We’ll know how well Aguirre-Sacasa did when Spider-Man opens on Broadway on June 14.
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Memo to Screen Gems:
If Sacasa follows the plot/tone/details of King’s original novel, rather than the ’76 fright flick, this could potentially be an interesting remake/reboot that won’t compete/tarnish the legacy of DePalma’s classic movie – then again, “Carrie” was already remade as a TV movie a few years back, so maybe done to death, literally?
But, Clint, pluuease don’t let Steve Antin direct! Oy.
So, let me get this straight.
The guy wrote a play that nobody liked, that was worked over.
And now he’s “a success” in two other venues?
What the hell are people smoking in Hollywood these days?
No… you don’t have it straight. He did NOT write the original ‘play that nobody liked’, he was brought in to fix it after Taymor was let go.
I’m much more interested in what you’re smoking. How much, and where can I score?
Oh Adam!
Thanks for the laugh, man. I needed it badly today.
TRUE GRIT 2 didn’t feel like a remake — on what planet — watch them back to back and tell us that again.
Amen. Love the book, love the 1969 version, especially the ending. The only changes they made this time out was they cut the ’69 prologue that showed her father’s death and added an epilogue where Maddie is older. And this is reimagining?
Spoilers ya fuckin moron.
This is pretty great news! I saw the updated Spiderman musical a few nights ago. He transformed that book. It feels like a new show and now has an actual plot with real characters. Hats off to this guy!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t Carrie already been remade? Does Hollywood ever do anything other than remakes or sequels anymore? Doesn’t anyone have an imagination?
I don’t ask for storytelling to be reinvented. Just a semi-original idea for once.
Guys… what I don’t think you are realizing is that CARRIE was a Broadway flop a few decades ago but many people were in love with the music even though it tanked. This guy is obviously going to be working on the revamp of the Broadway MUSICAL. NOT a new film version.
Yep it was already remade as a telefilm with angela bettis.
Slight clarification: That adaptation of The Stand for Marvel is being serialized in six five-issue chunks, each with its own subtitle. Thus, American Nightmares is actually “The Stand: American Nightmares.” As is with other volumes in the series, Captain Trips (vol. 1), Soul Survivors, (vol. 3), Hard Cases (vol. 4), and No Man’s Land (vol. 5), with one more five-issue volume, The Night Has Come, to, err, come.
Another slight clarification, RA-S is waaay too young to have written the original book for It’s SUPERMAN! — His is a rewrite of the original book.
I was sort of excited for a brief that Aguirre-Sacasa would tackle Carrie the musical, the flop that Spiderman seemed to threaten in scale of infamy.
Carrie is one of my favorite movies. There has been a sequel, a TV movie that could not possibly touch the majesty of the first. FYI, the musical was very faithful (right down to casting Carrie in her as her book description) to the book though impossible to happen on stage. Sometimes being faithful to the book does not necessarily mean a better movie. The Shining TV movie that King produced (he hated Kubrick’s revision of the story) was terrible. King even admitted that he liked some of the adaptations that actually changed stuff from his work, Frank Darabont’s The Mist as one recent example.
That said, I will gladly take Aguirre-Sacasa to be an outside handler on Glee since it seems that writing room got too tweaked out and were more interested in being fan-service this season. Hey, he at least made the Spiderman book faithful to some material, the Sam Raimi movie, instead of Taymor’s vanity project (like creating characters that NEVER existed in the canon and destroying the canon). Good luck to him. I am assuming Ryan Murphy will be busy doing American Horror Story on FX for this to have been possible.
To answer Ironic Mask’s question, Aguirre-Sacasa was brought in to FIX the musical nobody liked. He’s the script doctor on the project.
It wasn’t a remake. Did you read the article? It says, as everyone knows, that it’s not a remake but a return to the source material. It is nothing like the first film because the first film departed from the novel quite a bit.
@the Man in the oronic mask, He didn’t write the first version of Spiderman on Briadway. He is rewriting it because the first was so panned.
Usually not a fan of remakes, But if they must.
I say Dakota Fanning as Carrie!
Considering Carrie was chubby in the book (and musical), that would be a dead give away that is just for money and not a return to the source material.
Noooooooo! Don’t remake Carrie. That is a fantastic movie, with, other than those actors mentioned above, P.J. Soles, William Katt and Nancy Allen. You can’t convince me they can do better than having Carrie’s arm reaching up out of the grave at the end. If Hollywood is so re-make crazy, can’t they go after a movie that was horrible to begin with, not a classic?
I can already smell the PG-13
LOL. You’re so right. Bring in the tweens!
OMG! Like, Carrie can be, like, a Vampire.
I’ve read the book and seen the movie both more than once so I’m not clear on how “faithful” this new version would be. Sure the ending sequence was changed…but in my opinion it was a such a great sequence that it made the film BETTER! The Bettis version, aside from Carrie NOT dying in the end, had some some more faithful incorporations from the book but ultimately it was the original’s Academy Award nominated performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie that put the original in a league of it’s own.
Hopefully this new film will try to be a more disturbing/socially relevant film as the first still is. Issues of religious fanaticism and school bullies are always hot topics in society. The Rage: Carrie 2 was a cheap schock attempt to make just another teen horror flick. It was terrible.
Let’s hope they get the casting right because the tv version used the awful untalented Rena Sofer in the wonderful Betty Buckley role and the wonderful and talented Patricia Clarkson as Carrie’s Mom who despite her abilities and resumes delivered a not memorable subdued performance.
It’s interesting that whenever there are corporate acquisitions and takeovers and dealmaking in Hollywood it’s often over value of libraries or ancillary future revenue but now every one of these companies is out to devalue their own libraries as lazily and as frequently as possible.
‘Carrie’ is a great movie I’ve seen countless times and is a masterpiece. I think the key to DePalma’s ‘Carrie’ besides excellent acting, from Spacek to Nancy Allen, is that it really showed the iconoclastic cruelty/missteps of teen society in a way that hadn’t been done before. Even though most of the actors were in their mid-20s, it was a smart choice because don’t all teenagers in high school feel adult and beyond parental reach? Granted, a lot of students now will never be the same since Columbine and guns in school, but “Carrie” still is a grim cautionary tale—when the bullied snap.
I’m not a screenwriter or anything, just an industry worker dude, who really hopes they don’t try to pander to the new teens—remember “Carrie 2″s lead was like a goth and there was techno and oh brother— and make it an ‘R’ film, like the first, where both adults (with high school scars) and teens/kids (with fresh starts) can all get spooked. Simple is better. Please don’t ruin it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJe0iVo8y3A- Original trailer
So glad you bozos in Hollywood have an imagination. The next time there is a writers strike, do me a favor and just let them do it. Remakes are useless. Show the original on the big screen again. There are too many books out there that would make great movies and too many great ideas yet to be done.
wow another remake?
“Plug it up!”, Hollywood, and, please, do NOT re-make “Carrie”!