Stephen King brought several adaptations to the screen in 2025, but some landed with audiences stronger than others. The most successful of the group by most metrics was The Long Walk, the harrowing dystopian thriller starring Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) and David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus).* The Long Walk *cost only $20 million to make and returned threefold on its investment, grossing over $62 million at the box office. Another long-awaited Stephen King adaptation finally hit the big screen last year: The Life of Chuck, the sci-fi epic starring Tom Hiddleston. Despite strong reviews, The Life of Chuck struggled at the box office, failing to cross $20 million, but it has since redeemed itself on streaming. King also delivered a TV prequel to the recent adaptation of IT, titled Welcome to Derry, and a remake of The Running Man starring Glen Powell in 2025.

There are always new Stephen King adaptations to look forward to, but perhaps none have as much momentum behind them as Carrie, which is confirmed to premiere before the end of 2026. Carrie was previously adapted into a 1976 feature film starring Sissy Spacek and directed by Brian De Palma, but this time, it’s a TV adaptation of Carrie that’s coming to Prime Video. Mike Flanagan is the lead writer and creator of the series, and it’s far from his first time working to adapt King’s material. Flanagan directed the polarizing Doctor Sleep movie in 2019, starring Rebecca Ferguson, and he more recently helmed Life of Chuck last year. Prime Video’s Carrie adaptation features a star-studded ensemble, led by Prey breakout Amber Midthunder, who stars as Miss Desjardin, and Matthew Lillard, who features as Principal Grayle.

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

Carrie follows a sheltered girl with telekinetic powers who is bullied, leading her into the middle of a horrific, bloody incident due to her mother’s domineering influence. Stephen King’s original Carrie novel was published all the way back in 1974, only two years before the first feature adaptation of the film premiered on the big screen. It’s now been more than 50 years since the book was released to the public, and Mike Flanagan has had plenty of time to decide how he wants to tell this story. Carrie has been in the works since October 2024, and that same month could serve as a solid release window for the spooky series later this year.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Carrie, which is coming to Prime Video later this year.

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