{"id":2617,"date":"2002-07-01T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/07\/emilie-slated-for-carrie-on-nbc\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:47:58","slug":"emilie-slated-for-carrie-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/07\/emilie-slated-for-carrie-on-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilie Slated for &#8216;Carrie&#8217; On NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NBC THREE-HOUR MOVIE EVENT &#8216;CARRIE&#8217; BEGINS PRODUCTION<\/p>\n<p>Production Begins with Broadway Star Angela Bettis in Title Role Backed by Cast Including Patricia Clarkson, David Keith, Jasmine Guy and Emilie de Ravin<\/p>\n<p>BURBANK, Calif. &#8212; June 28, 2002 &#8212; Production has begun on NBC\u2019s new, three-hour version of \u201cCarrie,\u201d based on Stephen King\u2019s horror classic, starring Angela Bettis (\u201cThe Crucible,\u201d \u201cGirl Interrupted\u201d) in the title role, it was announced today by Jeff Gaspin, Executive Vice President, Alternative Series, Specials, Longform and Program Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The movie event will be distributed by MGM Television Entertainment for a projected Fall 2002 broadcast. Filming began earlier this month in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>This gritty re-make of the 1976 MGM feature (starring Sissy Spacek) includes scenes from the novel that didn\u2019t appear in the original film, making it a more faithful adaptation of King\u2019s eerie tale of a teenaged girl, shunned by her peers, who discovers she has inexplicable telekinetic powers. Bryan Fuller\u2019s powerful three-hour screenplay and state-of-the-art digital effects take the thriller to a whole new level as Carrie\u2019s fellow high school students torment and mock her &#8211; unaware of the frightening forces of revenge boiling within her &#8212; waiting to explode.<\/p>\n<p>Bettis garnered critical praise for her role as Abigail, the troublemaking teen, in the Broadway production of \u201cThe Crucible.\u201d Her feature credits also include \u201cGirl, Interrupted\u201d and \u201cBless the Child.\u201d Veteran film and television star Patricia Clarkson (\u201cSix Feet Under,\u201d \u201cThe Green Mile\u201d) stars as Margaret White, Carrie\u2019s mother, whose religious fanaticism has made an outcast of her daughter. Also starring are David Keith (\u201cU-571,\u201d \u201cAn Officer and a Gentleman\u201d), Jasmine Guy (\u201cFeast of All Saints,\u201d \u201cA Different World\u201d) and Emilie de Ravin (\u201cRoswell\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>David Carson (\u201cStar Trek: Generations,\u201d \u201cFrom the Earth to the Moon,\u201d \u201cIn His Life: The John Lennon Story\u201d) directs from a script by Bryan Fuller (\u201cStar Trek: Voyager\u201d). Fuller executive produces along with Mark Stern, Pen Densham &#038; John Watson, partners in Trilogy Entertainment Group whose credits include \u201cThe Outer Limits,\u201d \u201cThe Twilight Zone,\u201d \u201cThe Magnificent Seven\u201d and \u201cBreaking News.\u201d David Livingston is the producer.<\/p>\n<p>Digital effects will be provided by Stargate Digit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC THREE-HOUR MOVIE EVENT &#8216;CARRIE&#8217; BEGINS PRODUCTION Production Begins with Broadway Star Angela Bettis in Title Role Backed by Cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emilie-de-ravin","category-leading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29128,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/29128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}