Every little Hit-Girl has to grow up and become a Hit-Woman someday, so it’s all too appropriate that Chloe G Moretz will be taking on the title role in the Carrie remake.
I’m beginning to think Moretz is going to amass the greatest string of female roles for a minor in history if she keeps it up. By the age of 15 she’s appeared in a successful or notable rom-com, horror flick, indie film, action movie, and worked with director’s like Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese. And no this, which is sure to be high profile and centered almost entirely on her. She’s killin’ it.
The announcement of this casting decision follows rumors of a possible Lyndsey Lohan casting mistake, with Dakota Fanning also possibly being in the mix. My even deeper sources tell me the choice was made by leaving Fanning, Moretz, and Hailee Steinfeld in a room together with two snapped pool cues.
What I’m trying to tell you is that Dakota Fanning and Hailee Steinfeld are dead, and Moretz has blood on her hands.
That said, I’m told the most bizarre turn came when Isabella Fuhrman actually busted into that “casting session” and dove into the fight demonstrating mastery of the Carrie character’s actual powers but Moretz was able to fend her and her supernatural gifts off as well, though Fuhrman escaped into the night to compete for underage female roles once again…
The remake of the 1976 flick still needs a nice splashy casting choice for the psycho mom, so expect another round of casting coverage very soon. Also, if you’re looking for the definitive piece of Carrie-related web literature, look no further.
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Source | Deadline (via A/V Club)
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That excerpt is too great.
She’s also been great as Alec Baldwin’s nemesis on “30 Rock”.
I suppose enough time has passed since The Rage: Carrie 2 (from 1999), no? Or am I the only one who remembers that movie, because I remember EVERYTHING? Perhaps. About all I remember about that movie is that it was about Carrie’s half sister, and that it gave good harpoon death and about the only “kill the bitch with CDs” scene I can recall. And Amy Irving came back for it, 23 years later, because her post-Spielberg divorce settlement must have run out.
There was also another remake that was done not too long ago, but I think it was either DTV or a TV movie with the girl that played “May” (in “May”) as Carrie. But it was a strange ending where she blew up the school, killed her mom and the bad kids, tried to commit suicide but was saved, then ran away and her powers were covered up by a school administrator at the end during the investigation. Maybe that’s how the book ended, but that movie almost felt like it was a set up for an on going series, or at least a sequel.
It was. They intended that to be a series.
Sissy Spacek should play the mom. That won’t make it good, necessarily, but it would still be neat.
That settlement will never run out.
Supposedly they’re gunning for the Clarice Starling duo and want either Jodie Foster or Julianne Moore for the mom.
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