India, Oct. 7 -- Mike Flanagan's 2026 Carrie series keeps the main story of Stephen King's classic novel but makes several major changes. From Carrie's family and her mother Margaret White to the source of her powers and her fate after the massacre, the new series takes the story in a different direction.

In Stephen King's 1974 novel, Carrie and her mother Margaret live alone from the beginning. Carrie's father, Ralph White, is already dead before the story starts. King's novel says he died in a construction accident seven months before Carrie was born.

Ralph was also a strict Christian fundamentalist who believed sex was sinful. The novel strongly suggests that Ralph sexually assaulted Margaret after drinking, which resulted in Margare...