It isn’t a big surprise, but MGM has formally offered Julianne Moore the nightmarish religious fanatic mother in the Kimberly Peirce-directed remake of the 1976 film Carrie. Chloe Moretz is already set to play the title character, a young woman whose devastating telepathic powers rear up when she reaches puberty.
Moore’s name has been in the mix for some time, but at the time MGM maintained it was talking to numerous actresses. Now, they’ve sent Moore the script and a pay or play offer to play Margaret White, the role which Piper Laurie rode to an Oscar nomination. Moore just got done playing Sarah Palin in the Jay Roach-directed HBO film Game Change, but Margaret White makes the former vice presidential candidate seem like a raging liberal.
Her conservative, repressive rearing of her daughter turns the young woman into a time bomb, and both mom and the high school pranksters who play a cruel prank on Carrie reap the whirlwind when the young woman unleashes her powers. The film is based on the 1974 Stephen King novel that was first films by director Brian De Palma. Sissy Spacek played Carrie White, and both she and Laurie got Oscar noms. Moore is repped by Management 360.
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