Mike Flanagan making Carrie series

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Originally Posted by critterdvd

Don't get me wrong I've been a fan of Mike Flanagan for a while now, but you'd think two meh remakes, and a more-or-less forgotten sequel would have been enough for this story.

What titles are you referring to specifically? I'd assume the "more-or-less forgotten sequel" is Doctor Sleep?? Honestly, I don't think anyone could have done Doctor Sleep better than Flanagan aside from maybe Kubrick himself and that wasn't ever gonna happen. He was fighting an uphill battle from the start....a sequel 40 years after the original released and a blend of both the book and the Kubrick film which didn't follow the book super closely. Albeit I am still a little annoyed that the director's cut wasn't on the 4K disc but then again it wasn't a huge box office success so couldn't expect much in terms of home media

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Originally Posted by New-Blu-Blood

What titles are you referring to specifically? I'd assume the "more-or-less forgotten sequel" is Doctor Sleep?? Honestly, I don't think anyone could have done Doctor Sleep better than Flanagan aside from maybe Kubrick himself and that wasn't ever gonna happen. He was fighting an uphill battle from the start....a sequel 40 years after the original released and a blend of both the book and the Kubrick film which didn't follow the book super closely. Albeit I am still a little annoyed that the director's cut wasn't on the 4K disc but then again it wasn't a huge box office success so couldn't expect much in terms of home media

Doctor Sleep is the sequel to “The Shining” not “Carrie”…. I was referring to the various “Carrie” adaptations…

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Originally Posted by critterdvd

Doctor Sleep is the sequel to “The Shining” not “Carrie”…. I was referring to the various “Carrie” adaptations…

Ahhh, that makes more sense now. When you said you were "a fan of Mike Flanagan but..." and then went on to explain, I thought you meant that you were tired of seeing his works.

But I agree, definitely could have chosen better source material for an 8-part miniseries. Heck even The Shining would have been a better choice. Flesh out some of the stories of the ghosts of the Overlook and how they got there.