The Shining Sequel/Prequel/omfg

[DMHead777]

http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/...overlook-hotel

One of these days I'm going to go back and re-read all those Stephen King books I first encountered in middle school, a time in my life when I was about as knowledgable as a fully mature ferret and only twice as handsome.

I say that because my memories of The Shining are now less than dim. I remember it mostly for its divergence from the Stanley Kubrick film (or vice versa, I suppose). What I don't remember is the dense, richly layered, epic world building King put together.

But it must have been there. Not only is Stephen King about to release a sequel called Doctor Sleep (second cousin to Doctor Teeth), but ex-The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara is possibly going to write a prequel. So I clearly missed the part where the story of a guy going crazy in a hotel is just one piece of a very large saga.

The prequel will be called The Overlook Hotel. No word yet on what it's about or where it takes place, though.

So if you read The Shining or watched one of its two movie versions and wondered what happened before all the interesting stuff happened, this movie is for you! How many cute connections to Kubrick's film can they throw in? How lavishly will they recreate Kubrick's version of the hotel? How much will all this fidelity to an inferior vision of The Shining piss Stephen King off? Only one way to find out. Unfortunately.

More as this develops. For instance, we'll definitely put something up when Colin Farrell gets cast.

http://badassdigest.com/2013/04/11/h...ver-asked-for/



God damn it

[WickedNik]

[Halcon Loco]

A prequel?? Really?

[RustedChainsaw]

Well, whatever. For good or bad, there's gotta be more to work with here than with that "Bates Motel" modern prequel.

[TonyVato]

As long as it's not a remake. Instant death to anyone that remakes Kubrick!!!!

[Escherid]

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[CountOrlok]

Lol, every time they make a prequel and try and reveal the mystery it just ends up lame *cough* Prometheus *end cough*.

[Escherid]

Lol, every time they make a prequel and try and reveal the mystery it just ends up lame *cough* Prometheus *end cough*.

no matter what anyone thinks of that movie, you have to admit, the baby xenomorph was adorable ^_^

[BooBerry]

I'm a Kingophile... I'll have to watch.

[Joe Grisly]

boo

[Septimus]

Look forward to that, The Shining is one of my favourite ever movies.

[CountOrlok]

[IrishG3nt]

Hey Hollywood

[greywolf]

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[Dark Angel]

gah i really hope they don't do a sequel to this movie, it's such a classic

[CountOrlok]

As long as it's not a remake. Instant death to anyone that remakes Kubrick!!!!

The Shining re-do was atrocious but Lolita was a damn fine movie, and dare I say, even better than the original.

[lostforever]

Not interested at all. Just leave it alone.

[now2blue]

Stephen King actually wrote a lengthy prequel called "Before the Play". It starts with the building of the hotel and goes through different eras of the Overlook. I don't remember it being overly entertaining but it was kind of cool. You can find it somewhere out there and check it out.

[Frey]

Too bad Kubrick is no longer with us because I am sure it would be amazing to see Doctor Sleep made into a film by him, although considering King hated his guts it would probably have not happened anyway.

[Frey]

I just read this on Facebook regarding Firestarter.

Fun Horror Movie Fact: 'Firestarter' (1984)

This film was originally going to be directed by John Carpenter. According to Carpenter, Universal executives removed him from the project in the wake of the box office and critical drubbing they received for The Thing.