More Carrie Casting News



Bloody Disgusting has posted news that Gabriella Wilde has been officially tapped to play “Sue”, while Judy Greer (The Village, Cursed) in talks to play the “Gym Teacher”.  More HERE
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  1. Bryant BurnetteMay 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM

    Judy Greer would be perfect for that role.

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  2. AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 2:18 PM

    Here's the trick to making the roles work. The thing to remember is that Carrie Sue are both equally crazy, they're just from opposite ends of the spectrum.

    In that sense, the actresses should give the idea that the characters roles could be interchangeable and that under other circumstances, Sue would be in Carrie's place and vice versa.

    I think the suggestion should be implied that while the populars mock Carrie, it should be hinted that all it takes is one little tip of some kind of scales to make make her and Sue switch places for real.

    That's just the vibe I get anyway.

    ChrisC

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    1. Bryant BurnetteMay 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM

      Sue isn't crazy; she's just a normal girl who gets swept up in the moment and joins in with all the other girls who are taunting Carrie. But overall, she's a good girl, and that's what leads her to push Tommy to help her make amends. It's a good idea, too, but one that goes a bit wrong thanks to outside forces.

      Those outside forces, of course, being Chris. Now, CHRIS, she kinda IS Carrie's opposite number; she's a victim of bad parenting, just a different variety. Chris, now; SHE'S crazy.

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    2. AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 6:02 PM

      You're right, sorry, got turned around there for a moment.

      My basic point still remains the same, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, Har!

      My basic point was the truth about Carrie and Chris is they're really both bullies in fact, they approach their job from different angles, Chris is straight Agressive-agressive while Carrie is textbook passive agressive with a keg of dynamite buried underneath her exterior.

      The more I think about, for me an interesting way to play her classmates, at last some of them, would be as inmates in a mental ward.

      The basic idea here would be to somehow or other hint that Chris and the popular set are like mental patients who haven't been collared yet. John Travolta's performance in the De Palma original is the perfect example of what I mean and King talks about it Danse Macabre.

      With that in mind, a final thing I'd like the filmaker's to try to get across is that Chris and her set are given such high stature because all the other students in some way KNOW they are all crazy and give them prestige as a way of keeping a wide berth and below their radar.

      It would be interesting if the could film some of the high school scenes like Scorsese did the corridors of Shutter Island.

      ChrisC

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    3. Bryant BurnetteMay 27, 2012 at 9:09 PM

      Ooh, "Shutter Island"! A great movie from a great director.

      You've got some interesting ideas there, Chris, and I think a great movie could be made using them.

      Me, though, I'd go in a different direction. Part of what I find to be so compelling about the novel is the idea that it's a more-or-less normal situation (albeit one with some really bad behavior on the part of Chris and her gang) that becomes something very abnormal thanks to Carrie's telekinetic abilities. But those are almost totally irrelevant until the end of the book; most of the story is based on the simple idea that adolescence is a brutish sort of hell, and for adolescent girls it's even worse ... and for an adolescent girl whose mother has failed to teach her how her own body works, it's exponentially worse.

      That's a very relatable scenario, and part of what makes the novel work is the suggestion that traumatic things like that must happen to sad little girls all over the world. King, being an entertainer, had the sense to then drape a layer of escapist fantasy over the whole thing, so as not to make it overly oppressive. It's a delicate balance between realism and fantasy.

      Part of the reason I dislike the DePalma movie is that I feel like it got that balance wrong in many scenes (particularly in the depiction of Margaret White, who is a cartoon in that movie). I'm no expert on the subject of the new film's director, Kimberley Peirce, but the one movie of hers I've seen -- "Boys Don't Cry" -- is so realistic that it hurts. So I have no doubts that she can get those elements of "Carrie" right.

      If she is as good at layering in the element of fantasy that the story also needs, then this could be a great movie. But it's all about finding that balance. Go too far in one direction, and you get camp (like the DePalma movie); go too far in the other, and you get a movie that is too dark to be enjoyable in any way.

      I hope it turns out well!

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  3. franciscoMay 28, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    have you seen The initiation of Sarah? althought I'm a great fan of the De Palma film Kay Lenz is much more empathic than Sissy Spacek

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  4. franciscoMay 28, 2012 at 11:11 AM

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