Mike Flanagan’s TV updating of Carrie has a new trailer and a confirmed release date – it’s coming to Prime Video this October.
Update, 10.9.2026: As Carrie’s release date inches closer, Prime Video has released a new trailer for the upcoming series. We’ll embed it below, we’re nice like that.
The trailer gives us a bit of a better look at Mike Flanagan’s take on King’s novel. Carrie here seems a little more attuned with her powers and in one scene it looks like she’s practising moving things with her mind. This is similar to the novel in which Carrie also finds her powers and slightly builds them up before the massacre of prom night. Social media will also play a huge part in this new take when it comes to Carrie’s bullying but Carrie will once again traumatically experience her first period at school.
Prime Video will drop all episodes on the 7th October. We’ll leave you with the trailer:
27.7.2026: Writer-director Mike Flanagan’s TV adaptation of Carrie has a confirmed release date and a trailer. It’s set to make its debut on Prime Video on the 7th October, and promises to offer a contemporary updating of Stephen King’s 1974 horror novel, first adapted for the screen by Brian De Palma two years after the book’s publication.
Summer H Howell will play bullied teenager Carrie White, whose brutal experiences at school and at home (courtesy of her Bible-thumping mother, here played by Samantha Sloyan) are joined by her growing powers of telekinesis. Flanagan’s new take on the material brings it into an age of social media and cyberbullying, and is set to run for eight episodes.
Previously…
17th February 2026: Director Mike Flanagan has seemingly made it a personal mission to offer audiences solid Stephen King adaptations. Not only has the director already given us Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep and The Life Of Chuck to mention a few, the director is also bringing us a new version of The Mist and apparently The Dark Tower TV show is still in the works.
Carrie is the one we’ll be seeing first and we finally know when. There’s still no specific date, but Katee Sackhoff’ shared that the series would be heading to Prime Video in October.
“Back to Mike Flanagan, yeah… the Flanniverse… October of 2026, Carrie comes out on Amazon. You guys are in for a treat. It’s very good. It’s very good,” she told the audience at her Fan Expo Vancouver panel.
She also had some very nice things to say about it.
“I mean, it’s ‘Carrie.’ There’s fire? … There might be some blood. Yeah, I’m just excited. You guys are gonna love it. Mike Flanagan is, so good at what he does: smart, psychological horror.”
Fire? Blood? Sign us up!
Sackhoff also spoke about how much King trusts Flanagan.
“And he’s very, very good at adapting Stephen King, and Stephen trusts him. So, as you can tell in the press, Stephen’s giving him his entire library. He’s like, ‘You can do this one and you can do this one. How about this one? How about this one?’,” she said.
It seems like Flanagan might be in business for a good while if King is indeed “giving him his entire library”.
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While the UK has to wait a while longer for Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck, the director is already looking ahead. The director’s next project will take him back to the land of television as he looks to adapt Stephen King’s Carrie to a series.
As reported by Variety, the TV series has now revealed its main cast. Samantha Sloyan, a Flanagan regular, is set to portray Margaret White while Summer H. Howell will portray the titular teenage girl with supernatural powers.
Sinea Adugong will play Sue Snell while Joel Oulette plays her boyfriend Tommy and Matthew Lillard will appear as Principle Grayle. Alison Thornton will be Chris Hargensen, Carrie’s high school tormentor and Prey’s Amber Midthunder plays the empathetic Miss Desjardin.
Thalia Dudek, Josie Totah and Arthur Conti round-out the cast as Emaline, Tina and Billy.
Carrie is set to begin production in Vancouver in the next few weeks and the series will consist of eight episodes. Flanagan will direct some of those episodes while also writing, executive producing and showrunning Carrie.
King’s original novel has been adapted several times before, with Brian De Palma’s 1978 version being the most beloved and, quite frankly, disturbing. Flanagan is also somewhat of a King expert, having previously adapted Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game and the upcoming The Life Of Chuck from the writer’s work.
According to Variety, the show will be a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White (Howell), who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother (Sloyan). After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public High School, a bullying scandal that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”
