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Mike Flanagan’s next Stephen King-based project might have just found its Carrie White.

“I feel like the casting of Carrie shouldn’t even be a debate.

Carrie

She should be fat, and that isn’t a bad word.

Even the story’s best adaptations ignore this element completely and thus kneecap themselves.”

“Cast a fat girl to play Carrie u cowards.

Summer H. Howell

Her weight is a big reason why she was bullied.

That’s literally why they used pig blood specifically,“tweeted a third.

Sissy Spacek as Carrie White in Brian De Palma�s Carrie

The Monkey

Stephen King in It Chapter 2

Cujo (1983)

Anthony Michael Hall

The ghost of a young woman standing in front of a red door during the Netflix horror series, The Haunting of Hill House.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2

The Last of Us

Bella Ramsey in Ellie in The Last of Us season 2

The Last of Us

The Xenomorph on top of a container

GTA 6

Star Wars G1T4-M1N1 Droid on a pavement

Frendo in Clown in a Cornfield

Ghost of Yotei Collector�s Edition and Standard Edition with pre-order badge

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in The X-Files

Cult of the Lamb

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.