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.
This depiction of the Stephen King novel features the character Norma Watson the way she was written in the novel. In Brian De Palma's adaptation, Carrie (1976), he chose a random character for P.J. Soles to play, because he liked her audition. She was originally going to be playing a background character, but she improvised the moment where she smacks Carrie with her baseball cap in the opening scene, which DePalma liked so much he expanded her role in the film. He named her Norma Watson, who was the brainy valedictorian in the novel, when she was more like the another character, Tina Blake, who is Chris Hargensen's best friend.