MGM Formally Offers Lead Remake Of Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ To Chloe Moretz
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.
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