Playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been hired by MGM and Screen Gems "to resurrect" Stephen King's Carrie "with a more faithful adaptation" than director Brian De Palma's 1976 version starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, but Entertainment Weekly noted that King has expressed uneasiness about the idea:
"I've heard rumblings about a Carrie remake, as I have about The Stand and It," he said. "Who knows if it will happen? The real question is why, when the original was so good? I mean, not Casablanca, or anything, but a really good horror-suspense film, much better than the book. Piper Laurie really got her teeth into the bad-mom thing. Although Lindsay Lohan as Carrie White... hmmm. It would certainly be fun to cast. I guess I could get behind it if they turned the project over to one of the Davids: Lynch or Cronenberg."