Report, Screen Gems And MGM Horror Flick Will Hit Theaters 37 Years After Original ‘Carrie’ Debuted, Highlight Hollywood News
Today fans of the cult classic “Carrie” and moviegoers dying to see the new film will have to wait another 10 months before seeing Screen Gems’ and MGM’s Carrie remake. The horror pic, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, is being pushed back from March 15 to Oct. 18 to take advantage of Halloween, according to studio insiders. It opens one week before the seasonal staple Paranormal Activity 5.
Brian De Palma’s original Carrie, marking Sissy Spacek’s breakout role, opened on Nov. 3, 1976, roughly the same corridor.
Moretz also will have more time to do publicity, since her Kick-Ass 2 already will have opened in theaters. The sequel debuts June 28. Sony also announced several other calendar changes Thursday. TriStar thriller The Call, starring Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin, will take the March 15 spot, while No Good Deed, also a thriller, is being pushed from Oct. 18 to Jan. 17, 2014. No Good Deed, from Screen Gems, stars Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson.
Once again I see that Hollywood is going to “glamorize” Stephen King’s “Carrie” by having Julianne Moore playing Margaret White, Carrie’s mother.
The better person to play Ms White, who was a large woman, boxy in body with arms and hands like iron from flinging and folding wet sheets, throwing them into the ironing machines at the laundry would be Dot Jones, the woman who plays Coach Shannon Beiste on “Glee.” Ms Jones would be nearly perfect, as she is strong-looking and, physically, nearly the same body type as Margaret White, but the studio would have to age her about 20 years or so, as Carrie was a later-in-life child for Ms White.
The girl playing Carrie, Ms Moretz, follows in the studio’s idea of Carrie (a la Sissy Spacek). The character of Carrie was a chubby, dark-haired girl who was afraid of her own shadow, but blossomed after finding her powers. She was never a thin, blonde, beautiful girl.
I’d really like it if Hollywood would treat King’s books a lot better when they transfer his stories to the screen, and stick a darned sight closer to what the characters look like and how they really are in his books, not Hollywood’s idea of what they should look and be like on-screen.
Serious King fans (and the audiences that see those movies) would truly appreciate it.
wolfy