Bryan Fuller added some more positive dialogue about religion after he was asked to do so by David Keith, so that the film would not appear to be overtly anti-religion. One example is when Carrie makes statements about her own faith as opposed to her mother's views.
The only version to depict the scene where a younger Carrie sees her neighbor sunbathing only to get punished by Margaret, causing her to rain rocks on the neighborhood.
This is the only adaptation of "Carrie" which has interviews with the survivors of Prom Night, as in King's original novel.
Bryan Fuller had certain scenes edited so that it would appear that Carrie did not blink while using her telekinetic powers. One of those scenes that cut Angela Bettis's eye-blinks was the prom massacre.
When asked about the film by Ain't It Cool News in 2003, star Angela Bettis revealed that frequent collaborator Lucky McKee "HATED it. The truth is," she continued, "if I weren't in it, I wouldn't have watched it. I would have been one of those people that was like, 'Down with the Carrie remake!'"