One of the horror genre’s most beloved filmmakers is tackling one of the genre’s most well-trodden tales.

Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep) will make an eight-part miniseries out of Stephen King’s novel Carrie for Prime. The show’s official description reads “Misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Summer Howell) has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.”

This is the first time Carrie has been adapted for television in series form. Brian de Palma directed the 1976 film version, which starred Sissy Spacek. That was followed by 1999’s The Rage: Carrie 2, a 2002 NBC made-for-TV movie and the 2013 version that starred Chloë Grace Moretz.

Flanagan will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner on Carrie. He has adapted other King works, making films like Gerald’s Game and The Life of Chuck, and will be making a movie from King’s novel The Mist as well as a series out of The Dark Tower novels. He also produced several successful Netflix horror series, like The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

Carrie’s cast will also include Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen, Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross, Josie Tota as Tina, Arthur Conti as Billy, Thalia Dudek as Emaline, Amber Midthunder as Miss Desjardin, and Matthew Lillard as Principal Grayle.

Flanagan told Entertainment Weekly that the biggest challenge in producing an 8-hour version of Carrie, which is notably one of King’s shortest books.

“Typically, when you’re adapting a Stephen King book, the mission is completely different. It’s about, How do you make it smaller? This was the complete inverse. If we’re going to tell the story of Carrie White in longform, how do we make it expand?” he said.

Talking about dePalma’s take on Carrie, he said, “for me, this was never going to be a straight adaptation. The only way to approach it was to build something new out of the ingredients of Carrie. Otherwise, there’s really no purpose in trying to retread ground that’s been so beautifully walked before.”

Carrie will premiere this fall on Amazon Prime.