{"id":19502,"date":"2012-03-27T18:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T23:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19502"},"modified":"2012-03-27T18:38:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T23:38:35","slug":"chloe-moretz-offered-lead-in-carrie-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/27\/chloe-moretz-offered-lead-in-carrie-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe Moretz Offered Lead In CARRIE Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ChloeMoreitz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19503\" title=\"ChloeMoreitz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ChloeMoreitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ChloeMoreitz.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ChloeMoreitz-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Chloe Moreitz has been offered the lead in MGM\u2019s in adaption of Stephen King\u2019s first published novel<em> Carrie<\/em>. Moreitz will now go into negotiations with the studio to portray the shy and socially awkward teenager who uses her newly developed psychic powers to lash back at the classmates who taunt her.<\/p>\n<p>Moretz reportedly beat out a number of other contenders for the role including Dakota Fanning.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the book was adapted to film by Brian DePalma, earning both Sissy Spacek, who played Carrie, and Piper Laurie, who played her mother, Academy Award nominations. The film also served as early career vehicles for Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Betty Buckley and William Katt. The film\u2019s box office success set off a seemingly unending parade of King film adaptations, though a majority of them did not reach the level of critical or financial success that <strong>Carrie<\/strong> earned.<\/p>\n<p>This new version will be directed by Kim Peirce, who will set out to cast the rest of the film once Moreitz\u2019s deal is set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Not the kind of girl you want to take to the prom.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/27\/chloe-moretz-offered-lead-in-carrie-remake\/\" title=\"Chloe Moretz Offered Lead In CARRIE Remake\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4997,4032,4995,4996,475],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brain-depalma","9":"tag-carrie","10":"tag-chloe-moreitz","11":"tag-kim-peirce","12":"tag-stephen-king"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=19502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}