While remakes are inevitably greeted with groans, this one comes with a certain level of credibility. Director Kimberly Pierce comes from a background which suggests a certain prowess when it comes to extracting phenomenal performances from her cast, and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has a history in developing interesting relationships in the series Big Love.
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But the real promise in this comes down to two main things - the source material and the cast. The crew have promised to be more faithful to Stephen King's novel than the 1976 film, which (having not read the book myself) I've heard is a good thing. Other adaptations of King's work have been pretty great (such as 1408 and The Mist), and pretty scary too. But the cast - oh the cast! Chloë Grace Moretz is a very special young actress and phenomenally talented. She'll be able to bring both the awkward outsider and the raging, telekinetically charged teen roles together beautifully in a melding of her parts in Kick Ass and Let Me In to play Carrie. We've also got Julianne Moore in the interesting role of Carrie's mother, which gives her a lot to work with. So yeah, I'm pretty stoked for this one to come together, and possibly net Chloë her first Oscar nomination (like it did for Sissy Spacek when she played the role originally).
New York Comic Con will get the first look at this March 2013 release in a couple of days (on October 13th), and I'm very hopeful that this could be another addition to Moretz's already very strong canon. Look forward to our review of this when it hits next year.
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