We finally have the first trailer in the upcoming horror remake Carrie starring Chloe Grace Moretz and directed by Boys Don’t Cry filmmaker Kimberly Peirce.
When news came out that the classic Brian De Palma film adaptation of the Stephen King novel was being remade there wasn’t much of a positive reaction to the news. The usual grumbling about another horror remake being put into production and how Hollywood was running out of ideas was heard throughout the blog land. Then more details surface of who would play the title role which was made famous in the original film by Sissy Spacek. When it was announced that Chlie Grace Moretz would take on the Carrie role then grumbling subsided somewhat.
While there will always be detractors of the film even while it’s still in production the word coming out that the film will not be a straight out remake of the film but more of a faithful adaptation of the novel has made me cautiously optimistic. The fact that the last horror remake Moretz was involved in turned out quite well (Let Me In) is another reason to hope. Plus, Peirce as the director should help put the focus of the film’s narrative on where King originally intended it to be and that’s the social divide between the popular kids in the dangerous world of high school who end up bullying the weaker outcasts.
The teaser trailer gives a hint at how the film looks to follow the novel more than the De Palma film by showing the town in flames and not just the school. Carrie is set for a March 15, 2013 release date.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Hit Girl is in it? Sold!
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“…more details surface of who would play the title role which was made famous in the original film by Sissy Spacek. When it was announced that Chloe Grace Moretz would take on the Carrie role then grumbling subsided somewhat.”
Chloe who?
Crash and burn is written all over this one. Honestly, what are they going to remake next: “Gone With the Wind”?
“Carrie” was followed by a rather belated sequel entitled “The Rage: Carrie 2” in 1999, so this isn’t the first time they’ve tried to reheat the legacy of Brian De Palma’s classic revengae fantasy.
This Chloe girl, whoever she is (my apologies for not being addicted to the Disney Channel) is physically all wrong for the part. Sissy Spacek actually looked like somebody that would be an outcast in an American high school setting. Chloe What’s-Her-Name looks like a friggin’ cheerleader (an off-season cheerleader who does her sunbathing in Anchorage, but a cheerleader nonetheless).
Back in 1976, horror movies full of callow youths being destroyed in morbidly creative ways was the novelty, not the norm. It was genuinely disconcerting to see such horror and mayhem takes place on a high school campus, horror and mayhem set in motion by an emotionally-disturbed misfit student. But we’ve seen a googleplex of teen horror movies in the past 35 years with teens being turned into instant kitty chow, in addition to numerous all-too-real rampages in high schools and colleges across the United States.
Nevermind the fact that NOBODY can fill Sissy Spacek’s shoes on this one.
A year after it’s released, this remake of “Carrie” shall be all but forgotten. Anybody else remember the remake of “Footloose”, or the fact that there even was a remake? Exactly.
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I’m not sure if you’re being facetious about the Chloe thing but I’ll err on the side of caution and say you genuinely don’t know her.
I’ll just say we’ll have to disagree on the merits of this film since I’m waiting to actually see it before making a decision (or at the very least waiting for it to actually finish filming at the very least) while you seem to have already made a decision based off of a teaser trailer.
I will agree with you that no one can fill Sissy Spacek’s shoes. She made the role hers, but other performers have done the same in other roles (ex. Sir Laurence Oliver in the role of Hamlet yet Kenneth Branagh more than acquitted himself in his own remake of that film and the umpteenth film version of that famous bard play) and others trying on the same role never diminished their work. I’d dare say that remake never diminish the original no matter how well or bad the remakes turned out. So, I’m always perplexed at the vehemence some people have over them like you for example. I mean you seem to think remakes are some recent trend when it’s been going on for a hundred years now. It’s something that’s actually done less now when compared to the advent of talkies during the mid-1920’s and on.
Maybe this remake will end up sucking as you said, but I’ll judge this film when it comes out and try to actually judge it based on the work Kimberly Peirce (a filmmaker not known for remakes but well-known as an adept indie filmmaker) and the cast.
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