Deadline reports that things have progressed and MGM has made a formal offer for Julianne Moore to take the role of Margaret.
Orginally published 04/16/12: With a release date slated last week, the wheels are now firmly in motion on the Kimberly Peirce's "Carrie" remake starring Chloe Moretz. With the lead actress now locked in, the task is now on hand to find someone to play the poor girl's deranged mother, and a name that has already been bandied about seems to be taking a more firm shape.
Bloody Disgusting reported that Columbia Pictures is "speaking closely" with Julianne Moore to take on the role of Margaret White, the abusive, fundamentalist Mom of Carrie. Moore's name is one that has been knocking around since last month (Jodie Foster was also mentioned) but it seems things are perhaps getting a bit more formal. There is no doubt Moore could pull this off -- she can pretty much do anything -- and it would give her the rare opportunity to do horror, a genre she hasn't dabbled in all that often (there was "Shelter" but the less said about that the better). Not only that, but with Peirce at the helm, it's the kind of quality director that Moore generally looks toward.
So we'll see how this pans out, but Moretz and Moore? Sounds good to us. "Carrie" opens on March 15, 2013.
Roger Birnbaum, CEO of MGM, recently gave talks at the University of Denver and he dropped some nuggets of info about a few remakes in the MGM pipeline. Furthest along is the redo of Carrie. Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) is set to direct and Chloe Moretz is officially onboard in the lead role, first played by Sissy Spacek in the 1976 adaptation of the Stephen King novel. During the talk at the University of Denver, Birnbaum revealed that some of the film may be done in the found footage style.
The updates on the project come from a Reddit recap of the event (via Movies.com), and Birnbaum apparently let slip that Carrie will be, at least partially, found footage. Movies.com points out that King’s original novel is interspersed with “official” documents recounting the events of Carrie’s prom night.
We had heard that Peirce planned to return to the source material for this adaptation, so this found footage aspect would actually be keeping in step with how King’s novel is laid out. This is the kind of found footage that I think actually works well when done right, so hopefully we’ll just be given bits and pieces of the technique throughout the film (or possibly as an opening sequence?). [via]
Orginally published 04/16/12: With a release date slated last week, the wheels are now firmly in motion on the Kimberly Peirce's "Carrie" remake starring Chloe Moretz. With the lead actress now locked in, the task is now on hand to find someone to play the poor girl's deranged mother, and a name that has already been bandied about seems to be taking a more firm shape.
Bloody Disgusting reported that Columbia Pictures is "speaking closely" with Julianne Moore to take on the role of Margaret White, the abusive, fundamentalist Mom of Carrie. Moore's name is one that has been knocking around since last month (Jodie Foster was also mentioned) but it seems things are perhaps getting a bit more formal. There is no doubt Moore could pull this off -- she can pretty much do anything -- and it would give her the rare opportunity to do horror, a genre she hasn't dabbled in all that often (there was "Shelter" but the less said about that the better). Not only that, but with Peirce at the helm, it's the kind of quality director that Moore generally looks toward.
So we'll see how this pans out, but Moretz and Moore? Sounds good to us. "Carrie" opens on March 15, 2013.
Roger Birnbaum, CEO of MGM, recently gave talks at the University of Denver and he dropped some nuggets of info about a few remakes in the MGM pipeline. Furthest along is the redo of Carrie. Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) is set to direct and Chloe Moretz is officially onboard in the lead role, first played by Sissy Spacek in the 1976 adaptation of the Stephen King novel. During the talk at the University of Denver, Birnbaum revealed that some of the film may be done in the found footage style.
The updates on the project come from a Reddit recap of the event (via Movies.com), and Birnbaum apparently let slip that Carrie will be, at least partially, found footage. Movies.com points out that King’s original novel is interspersed with “official” documents recounting the events of Carrie’s prom night.
We had heard that Peirce planned to return to the source material for this adaptation, so this found footage aspect would actually be keeping in step with how King’s novel is laid out. This is the kind of found footage that I think actually works well when done right, so hopefully we’ll just be given bits and pieces of the technique throughout the film (or possibly as an opening sequence?). [via]
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