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BREAKING: After meeting and reading a group of young actresses for Carrie, MGM, Screen Gems and director Kim Peirce have made their decision and made the formal offer today to Chloe Moretz. If negotiations work out, she’ll play the title role in the remake of the Brian DePalma original that was based on the 1974 Stephen King bestseller. She’s expected to play the shy high school student Carrie White, who is raised by a nightmarish religious fanatic mother, and comes to grip with devastating telepathic powers just as she reaches puberty. She eventually uses those gifts for lethal means when fellow classmates use the prom as an excuse to humiliate her before the entire school in a parable about bullying. Sissy Spacek played the character in the first movie, with Piper Laurie playing her mother, and Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Betty Buckley and William Katt rounding out the cast. Both Spacek and Laurie got Oscar nominations for their work in the 1976 film.
The studio and Peirce have been meeting with actresses for the past two weeks. Word all along was that while other names were circulating, Peirce and the studio had an eye on Moretz. The studio denied it at the time, but what actually happened is, Moretz didn’t meet with Peirce until last weekend. She got the job immediately. Moretz, who first came on with performances in Kick-Ass, (500) Days Of Summer and Let Me In, is at the top of the crop of young actresses. Coming off Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, her next major film is the Tim Burton-directed Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp. She’s repped by WME and 3 Arts. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa wrote the script and Kevin Misher’s producing.
Insiders said that once they make Moretz’s deal, they will focus on landing the psycho mom and supporting cast and they will shoot this year.
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Still don’t know why we need another CARRIE, (was the musical not enough?) but if they’re going to do it, at least they picked the right girl for the job. Chloe is on fire, and if she keeps it up will be the #1 leading lady for decades to come.
The original is the best!! Why not do an updated version of it….Im sure it could be based on the original but depict it with new age ways to bully such as videos, texts etc…..just saying.
Doesn’t the 2002 made-for-tv version counts? and the sequel to the original one?
Agree… Chloe M. has some very nice acting chops. As does my #1 Saoirse Ronan. They both are “In the Zone.”
I agree Amy Irving would be perfect for the mother. At her are should could cover the Piper L. part…How perfect!
If your listening casting people I smell $$$ on the Amy Irving choice.
Damn… I just LOVE Deadline “Go Nikki” great scoop!!
Amy Irving is a great Idea!!!
If anyone is paying attention, how about Amy Irving as Carrie’s mom?
Amy Irving can’t do it, because she was in the sequel, “The Rage: Carrie 2″ playing Sue Snell again, as an adult. It would be too weird to see her now play Margaret White.
I MUST AGREE WITH MARK ABOUT HIRING AMY IRVING ABOUT MARGARET WHITE. IT WOULD BE TOO STRANGE. IT WILL BE INTERESTED TO SEE HOW CLOSED THE NEW FILM WILL BE TO THE OLD ONE. GOOD LUCK TO THE FILM.
Looks like someone just discovered the wonders of CAPS lock…
Meh. Just what we don’t need, yet another remake.
Chloe is a good actress, but she needs to stay away from shit like this. It will only hurt her career.
Yeah, because adaptations of Stephen King’s work have hurt so many careers, right?
Stand By Me—Kiefer Sutherland
The Shining—Jack Nicholson
Carrie—Sissy Spacek (Oscar)
Misery—Kathy Bates (Oscar)
The Shawshank Redemption—Morgan Freeman (Oscar Nominee, Best Actor)
The Stand—Gary Sinise (nominated, Screen Actors Guild)
The Green Mile—Michael Clarke Duncan (Oscar nominee, Best Supporting Actor)
And that remake of The Shining did WONDERS for Steven Weber!
Chloe’s agent and team are very careful and particular about the quality of scripts that reach her; so I’m not worried. And please, don’t compare her to a B level actor.
Ew.
A TV movie, really?
Not exactly the same thing here
Quite a few movies made from SK books are made for TV movies.
Funny, I don’t see any remakes in your list.
Funny, it’s called an adaptation…not a remake. Film 101: a remake is screenplay to screenplay; whereas an adaptation uses the source material (novel, graphic novel, etc) to write the story.
Can you honestly say Christopher Nolan’s Batman is a ‘remake’ of Burton’s? Of course not.
No one called Batman remake either, it’s a reboot. Film 101 Dodge: A remake is based on the same storyline (ie Amityville Horror). A reboot is same characters/different story (ie this pointless Spider-Man reboot)Your comparison to what the other poster said makes no sense. You are trying to say the first film was not an adaptation of the book. As much as you want to say this isn’t a remake, it is. I usually still want to see them, but this looks pointless.
Sissy spacek didn’t win her Oscar for Carrie….She won it for The coal miners daughter.
Incidentally…where is Sissy now?
Sissy won a Screen Actors Guild award earlier this year, as part of the ensemble cast of “The Help”. I’d love to see her play Margaret White!
This script is really really great.
you’re wrong- this won’t hurt her career, at all.
I agree. There’s nothing to be gained for her going up against such an iconic horror film. Of course most, if not all, of the remake’s target audience has never seen the original so what do we know.
I’m also pretty sure that a lot of stuff in the original wouldn’t hold up today. The Piper Laurie/Sissy Spacek scenes might but the high school scenes would creak with age.
She’s going to be amazing in this! She’s needed another role that doesn’t just typecast her as a little kid and bound the depth of character she can display. Can’t wait!
BTW, as a fan of the movie House, I would love to see William Katt make a cameo appearance.
Top casting choice for Mrs. White:
SEAN YOUNG
BRILLIANCE!
Chloe is great casting as she is brilliant,, how about Julianne Moore as Carries mother?
This is a great idea, which means it won’t happen.
She’d be great, but one of the other names I’ve heard mentioned for the Mom role is Jodie Foster, who I also think would be fantastic. There have already been a number of comparisons between Foster and Moretz, both physically and from their acting chops at such a young age. Yet Moore might be able play the crazy side a bit stronger. I don’t think they can go wrong with either.
This kid is the best. Seriously.
Fantastic choice! I hope the supporting cast all look like perfect little people who all walked off of CW TV shows — that way, when they start dying in horrible ways, it can also be an indictment of all these TV shows that portray teenagers as beautiful and confident while ignoring the awkward realities teens actually face. …Or just more fun to watch the mean people get what they deserve. Either way.
typecasting happens when someone play the same kind of character over and over again.
but in chloe moretz case
hit girl
abbey
Carrie
Carolyn Stoddard?
Isabelle
these characters have little if anything in common
Jessica Lange would make a great mother for that movie!
Jessica Lang? She’s like 300 years too old to be Clohe’s mother…
maybe she had her very late in life -LOL
Fabulous actress, fabulous director, a female-centric project… Too bad it has to be yet another remake of something that doesn’t need remaking.
except no one under the age of 20 has seen the original.
most of the time, remakes suck- but this script is so good; honors the original; you have kim directing; and chloe to boot!
potential home run.
I wouldn’t go that far. Plenty of parents pass on their favorites to their kids. I’m 23, slightly over your limit, and I don’t know many people who have NOT seen Carrie.
I am 19 and several of my friends and even my youger brother have seen the original one.
Is there a rule that 20-year-olds won’t watch anything older than six months ago? When I was a kid, I watched lots of movies that had been made decades before I was born.
I mean, I know Blockbuster is out of business, but it should be possible to see horror classics.
So when are they going to remake The Shining? Remaking a brilliant movie is about as smart and classy as framing a poster of the Mona Lisa and having a party to show it to your friends.
There have already been two versions of the Shining
“So when are they going to remake The Shining?”
They already did, that awful TV version with Steven “Wings” Weber. I actually preferred The Simpsons version, The Shinning.
I’m just wondering if the new CARRIE will be as bold as the De Palma version and open in a high school girls shower???
The TV remake of “The Shining” was FAR from “awful”. It was fantastic, actually, and a faithful adaptation of the novel. Weber was great and its one of the best things ABC has done.
Absolutely, I’m so sick of that ABC remake getting pissed on from people who’ve never even seen it. It was a great flick and more faithful to the book.
Shining doesn’t need to be remade…part 2 is coming out soon…Dr Sleep….written by Stephen King!
they DID remake the shinning look up “Stephen King’s the shinning” full title , it was a 4 hr made for tv movie SK was never happy with Nickolson being cast it was supose to be a clean cut upstanding looking father not someone you expected to butcher his family lol in that case the remake i think was better it was more true to the book
I agree, 100%. A huge part of The Shining was supposed to be his deteriorating mental state. Jack Nicholson seemed insane from the get-go.
To Good Lord: I believe that some remakes can actually be great. Look at the remake about the sinking of the TITANIC with Leo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet.That film had quite a few Academy Awards nominations and correct me if I am wrong, didn’t Ms. Winslet win an Oscar for her performance? That helped Kate get her big break here in America. She is an actress who is so creative and versatile in her movie roles. I do agree that a remake of THE SHINING would be ridiculous. I don’t think any actor could play the role of the crazy dad and husband better than Jack Nicholson.
A great actress getting very bad advice about what roles will elevate her career. So telekinetic “Chronicle” worked but this has the potential to bomb like the remade “Let Me In” did. She should seek dramatic challenges and avoid films like this that studios make to keep shareholders happy.
Wow, 180 degrees off. Whomever is handling Chloe’s career has done a brilliant job of elevating her above the tons of other child and teenaged actresses. Yes, she is a very good actor and very beautiful, but there are plenty of girls like that to pick from in Hollywood. I think we’d all like to believe that the most talented rise to the top, but that’s not the way it works. To be successful, they need to carve a space, develop a following, and pick some unique and even controversial roles to separate from the pack.
Her handlers (and I’m guessing it’s her family and a large part her brother who is from the industry) have carefully mixed in independent-style movies that show off Chloe’s acting abilities, with the big-name films like Hugo and Dark Shadows, and the controversial, as we saw with her role as Hit Girl in Kick Ass. They’ve kept her away from the teenaged, Disney-style junk that she could easily have and would lead to a temporary big score but almost certain long-term career death. Moretz has more of a adult following than a preteen/teen following, which is why she has much better prospects than her peers.
She’s had leads in smaller films, and she’s had supporting roles in big films, but this is her first time with a leading role in a major film. She’s all of 15. Her handlers get an A+.
Granted Let Me In didn’t make a ton of money, but I feel that as soon as someone calls a critically acclaimed movie that made its money back and then some a bomb, the point becomes invalid.
ahm, actually very familiar in the said story about “CARRIE” for me much better to see Chloe Moretz not in the sexy film, not in kising scene. But in the character, brilliant like a “Hit Girl”, strong & gorgeous like Abby in “Let Me In”, adviser like in a “wimpy kid” she is only 15 in her age, very young.
Hollywood is bankrupt…remake, after remake, part 2, part 3, part 4. there are no Writers in hollywood anymore, just “fresh out of school” “executives” who refuse to put their neck on the line to bring a great script to life. hell, if you can eek out millions rehashing old shit, then why not? why put your neck out for something new and fresh if everyone is willing to just watch old re-hashed crap on the screen?
is everyone in Hollywood afraid of doing something ORIGINAL???? what a bunch of OVER paid studio EXEC’S trying to justify their $$$
Some original films this year: the grey, chronicle, Prometheus, Cloud Atlas… and many more.
What the hell is wrong with the original one, shit everyone knows remakes of classic are never as good as the original one, I will not be seeing this movie. This just goes to show they are running out of ideas and creative. I would rather movies be a thing of the past before I see a classic remade into some piece of shit, just saying.
shes too pretty for the role. i really cant see her playing a wall flower.
That was my thought exactly.
Great actress, but I don’t see this working. It’s hard to hide the pretty without the whole thing coming off as forced and phony. A gorgeous 15 year old without eye makeup is still a gorgeous 15 year old.
She’d be great for the Nancy Allen role though.
They did make a remake to the shinning. rebecca demorney and steven webber play in it.
Great casting! Love her, but STOP WITH THE REMAKES PEOPLE! STOP!
Why not have sissy spacek as mom, its worked in other films but can’t think of any at this moment in time lol
There was actually a made-for-TV remake already, in 2002. Not interested that much in this one either…but Chloe Moretz is always fun to watch. Loved her recent bit on 30 Rock too.
I know what people mean about “another remake.” But what you don’t realize is that a lot of younger people don’t watch old movies. So it makes sense to do newer versions. It’s just a shame that they often don’t live up to the greatness of the originals…but sometimes they can surprise us.
I can’t get many of my friends in their late-twenties to watch movies like Jaws, Dirty Harry, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc. “It’s too sloooowww.”
I know someone who watched Jaws on 10X fast forward, who then confidently declared that Deep Blue Sea was better. Then I cried.
I’m in my late twenties, and I make horrific faces at people who say Deep Blue Sea is better; I saw Jaws as a kid and it made me love sharks! I still watch it all the time.
But it’s true; lots of young people don’t watch older movies. I don’t normally watch remakes/reboots because I’ve had experience tell me that remakes/reboots don’t live up to the original material (I’m looking at you Nick Cage in the Wickerman).
However, if people can see this stuff and treat it like a separate entity from the source material, they could be pleasantly surprised! Kubrick’s version of The Shining wasn’t much like the book, so it’s a bad adaptation but it’s a fantastic movie! Plenty of people were cringing when Heath Ledger was announced as the Joker; Jack Nicholson was the only person who could be the Joker to many people!
I’ve seen bits and pieces of the 2002 tv version of Carrie; if this remake means young people seeing something of better quality than that, I have no complaint.
I think people like Deep Blue Sea-or say they like it- because Samuel L. Jackson’s in it.
I love to watch old movies and I’m 17.
really some perfect pretty teen to play the outcast?