Adaptations, remakes and reboots are all the rage right now, and there\u2019s often one question that crops up – why?<\/p>\n
See also “what’s the point?” and “do we need another one?” whenever a story is resurrected from the past.<\/p>\n
Carrie, Prime Video’s new TV series based on Stephen King’s debut novel, has been no exception.<\/p>\n
It’s not the first time the tale of high school bullies and supernatural powers has been adapted for the screen.<\/p>\n
Director Brian de Palma’s 1976 movie version is a horror classic, with some of its most famous scenes and imagery widely considered iconic within the genre.<\/p>\n
But the cast and creator of the latest version, which drags Carrie’s story forward 50 years into a world of social media, have been telling BBC Newsbeat why they believe it’s still relevant in 2026. <\/p>\n
Fans of the novel have been quick to complain the new version of Carrie is not “book accurate”, pointing out that she was originally an abrasive, even unlikeable character.<\/p>\n
In the TV adaptation, Carrie has been raised behind closed doors by her paranoid father and deeply religious mother, and only enters school after a tragedy reveals her existence to authorities.<\/p>\n
Audiences see a different version of the character in the show – one who’s naive, but open and eager to learn new things.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of opinions, and I purposely avoided the original movie and and the book before filming because I hadn’t seen it or read it,” Summer H Howell, who plays Carrie, tells Newsbeat.<\/p>\n
“And I wanted to create this new, light version of Carrie that was excited to get out of her house and just curious about the world and people.” <\/p>\n
However, the 22-year-old actress says the journey her character goes on is not so different, and argues it’s still relevant today.<\/p>\n
“It’s the story of an outsider, and bullying has not gone away in 50 years,” she says.<\/p>\n
“If anything, it’s just gotten worse with social media.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adaptations, remakes and reboots are all the rage right now, and there\u2019s often one question that crops up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}