Have you read the Stephen King novel Carrie?

King's novel is better than the 2002 & 2013 versions, but I prefer the 1976 version over the book and apparently so does King.

I have read the book from cover to cover many times and I find the 2002 version very faithful to it, except for the ending and that Carrie seems much smarter than in the book.

Joshua 1:9 ... unashamed.

Yes, I have. The book gave a better explanation for Carrie's power and its limits, if only because it told the story largely from her POV.

Here's one thing no one has yet picked up on. The book ended with the story of another Carrie in the making. This Carrie would not come to high-school graduation with so much emotional baggage. One would hope this second Carrie ("making the little pebbles go up and down all by themselfs") would learn to keep her power under wraps, or maybe share it only with her BFF's. I can just see the pranks this girl would pull, that would have the faculty and administration tearing out their collective hair in hanks because they couldn't figure out (a) who did it, (b) how, or (c) how to stop it!

So right away the second Carrie would be a comedy, not the tragedy this one was.

Except for one thing: agents of another recurrent Stephen King institution, The Shop (see Firestarter and The Tommyknockers for mentions), would come after her, to turn her into some kind of experiment. And then you'd have your second horror story. For she would do the same thing the Firestarter did: destroy The Shop and kill its director and senior staff, if not every living soul in it. And then get out and fall in with some patriotic militiamen.

Oh, yes, I am a genuine Stephen King fan. I've read nearly every book he ever wrote, including all the Richard Bachman books. Carrie, Firestarter, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half...I could go on and on. Then one fine day I read The Stand--the original, complete and uncut.

Now back to the original Carrie: I've read so many works of fiction that sometimes I like to re-imagine them--crossover style. Here's a crossover idea for you, and this version of Carrie's story would explicitly make that possible. Suppose--whether because Susan Snell managed to smuggle her out of State or she simply got control of her bleeding and hit the high road--Carrie survives. Suppose her activities came to the attention, not only of The Shop, but also of MI6 in London, England. Not to mention Al-Qa'ida, the Russian RVS, the French SDECE, Mossad,...! Would that not start a scramble within "the intelligence community"--a secret war having the object to snare Carrie, recruit her, and weaponize her awesome power?

Atlantis Productions wanted to start a series, like The Outer Limits but "limited" to one character? Their imagination failed them. They should have contacted Cubby Broccoli, or his daughter, at EON Productions and collaborated on the greatest crossover story of all time.

Imagine:

Pierce Brosnan, as James Bond 007,

and

Angela Bassett as Carrie,

in

The World is Really Not Enough!