Her biggest role to date was as D’Artagnan’s love interest Paul W.S. ![]() However, Wilde’s casting is a bit more befuddling. Casting Moore is an almost obvious move, as she’s a fearless, capable actress who can bring depth to even the most heinous characters. Of course it’s still a risky move to redo something that so many deem a classic, but I must admit curiosity as to what Pierce will do with the iconic tale of a sweet girl whose staggering abuse at the hands of her classmates and mother turns her into a psychopathic psychokinetic killer.Īlso joining the cast is Gabriella Wilde who will play Sue Snell, the popular girl who takes pity on Carrie, and was played by Amy Irving in the original film. While many horror remakes of late have been little more than pale imitations of their source material, pairing Moretz-who has dazzled critics and genre fans alike with her work in Kick-Ass and Let Me In-with Moore immediately sets this revamp apart from the pack. The production helmed by Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce had previously lined up Chloe Grace Moretz to front the remake. Now four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore will attempt to top Laurie’s Oscar-nominated performance, as Deadline reports she has signed on to play Margaret White in the upcoming Carrie remake. Spitting out lines like, “They’re all gonna’ laugh at you,” and “I can see your dirty pillows,” Piper Laurie created a menacing movie mom for the ages. She associated sex and puberty with shame and sin, and so made her bullied daughter’s home not a sanctuary, but another place of torment. (It’s not like anyone remembers the 1999 sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2.Margaret White, the mental mother of the telekinetic teen at the center of the horror classic Carrie, is undoubtedly one of the most disturbing characters ever set to screen. ![]() There is a “surprise” twist, but it’s one that proves largely irrelevant unless they’re planning Carrie II. Rather than try to duplicate it or improve upon it, Pierce and her screenwriters don’t even try. The ending of the 1976 film left audiences screaming and was considered one of the big shock moments in the movies at the time, although it has been often copied since then. There are a number of differences in the last half hour of the film, most notably not using a split screen during the prom climax, a technique used often by DePalma but not part of Pierce’s style, best known for Boys Don’t Cry. We’ll leave the story there for those who haven’t seen it. We know that Chris is planning revenge which will involve copious amounts of blood and that, as a result, all hell will break loose. The story then proceeds pretty much as before, with bad girl Chris (Portia Doubleday) being suspended by kind gym teacher (Judy Greer), while kind girl Sue (Gabriella Wilde) feels guilty and gets her boyfriend (Alex Russell) to ask Carrie to the prom. In this version, directed by Kimberly Pierce, we quickly get to Carrie’s hysteria and – new thing! – one of the girls filming it on her cell phone. ![]() First, in the DePalma movie the scene was very much about what feminist film critics call “the male gaze.” We’re invited to ogle the nubile beauties in the flesh as if the camera is a boy who snuck into the girl’s locker room. ![]() This is one of the two sequences that are different from the earlier film. She has no idea what’s happening to her, and the other girls taunt and humiliate her. In the scene that sets the stage for the film’s conflicts, Carrie experiences her first menstruation in the girl’s shower and freaks out, thinking she’s dying. Mom believes sex is evil, thought she was dying of cancer when she was pregnant, and almost murdered Carrie at birth. Since the original movie still exists and can be seen, why do we need another version of it? That was the question before the makers of Carrie, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel about the repressed teenage girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers which was memorably filmed by Brian DePalma in 1976.įor those new to the story – presumably the viewers this was made for – Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass) is a high school senior being raised by a mother (Julianne Moore) who is a religious fanatic. Remakes are not inherently evil, but there ought to be a reason for them. Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell
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