The Carrie Diaries

So it has been revealed that Sex and the City maestro Michael Patrick King is planning on giving Carrie yet another outing onto the big screen.

This time however we won’t see her as the whimsical, yet uber fashionable Manhattanite, awash with fabulous friends, an even more fab wardrobe, and an on/off romance with Big. Instead we will be introduced to her teenage self as we witness her first steps into NYC.

Based on the novel of the same name by SATC writer Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries sees Ms Bradshaw finish high school, and leap straight into the big city and a romance with an older man. Sound familiar? Big and Alexander Petrovski anyone?

And who is being lined up to play the young Carrie? If rumors are to be believed the ultimate Park Avenue princess Blake Lively, of Gossip Girl fame, is all set to step into SJP’s inappropriately high Manolos.

Blake Lively 

Sure she has the fashion sense, but to be completely honest, I am not 100% sure how I feel about someone else playing Carrie, and the whole prequel in general.

Exactly how much more mileage (and money) can be squeezed out of the franchise?

Not only would the Carrie Diaries feature the central protagonist without her ever popular co-stars, it would also completely alienate the SATC core audience.

When debuted in the nineties, the show was geared toward the single 20-30 somethings, who have now become 30-40 somethings. To them  the worryings of a teenage Carrie are simply irrelevant..

I wish the film companies would leave the franchise alone for it to be remembered as it was back in the late nineties, early noughties – a ground breaking show that broke boundaries, empowered women and brought fashion to the foreground.