Warner Bros. considering The Shining prequel

[Lord]

But they should talk about those things more, i'm tired of names being thrown around and seem to be close to a final deal, only for that announcement to get a total "reboot" with a Different Director, as if the past offer didn't even happen.

 

[Pickleweasel]

But they should talk about those things more, i'm tired of names being thrown around and seem to be close to a final deal, only for that announcement to get a total "reboot" with a Different Director, as if the past offer didn't even happen.

What? Cuaron was never announced as the director.

 

[souvlaki]

Why not just commission Stephen King to write a script for an original story that takes place inside of the hotel aside from the characters of the previous movie? After all there can be other people that have gone crazy in the hotel just the same. It doesn't have to be anything about Jack and his family.

I love a lot of King's novels but no. His dialogue just does not translate to screen very well. Can't think of too many specific examples but his X-Files screenplay is a good example of what I'm talking about. If I remember correctly he wrote the screenplays for a few of the tv miniseries as well which suffered from the same problem.

 

[Lord]

What? Cuaron was never announced as the director.

I was mentioned he was offered the project, it's right in the previous page.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

But they should talk about those things more, i'm tired of names being thrown around and seem to be close to a final deal, only for that announcement to get a total "reboot" with a Different Director, as if the past offer didn't even happen.

But that's kind of how this whole "film making" thing works...

 

[Lord]

But that's kind of how this whole "film making" thing works...

I know, and this is how i, part of the audience, work

 

[Pickleweasel]

I was mentioned he was offered the project, it's right in the previous page.

So? Who cares?

 

[Lord]

So? Who cares?

Those who were excited and in the project as long Alfonso Cuaron did it.

 

[Pickleweasel]

Those who were excited and in the project as long Alfonso Cuaron did it.

You have no one to be disappointed in except for yourself. No one ever came out and announced cuaron was doing it

 

[Lord]

You have no one to be disappointed in except for yourself. No one ever came out and announced cuaron was doing it

So what? My fault or not, without a filmmaker like that i have very low expectations for such a project.

 

[Octoberist]

it is tricky to do a film like this, so i understand the skepticism.

 

[redhawk23]

They should just buy the rights to Doctor Sleep instead.

 

[:eek:]

"The Shining" Prequel Producer On Expectation

By Garth Franklin Tuesday October 6th 2015 01:01AM
With his Dan Rather scandal-themed journalism drama "Truth" scoring potential awards notices, writer/director James Vanderbilt is looking forward to the next few months. One project he has in the works though will test him - the previously announced prequel to Stephen King's "The Shining" which he's slated to produce.
Stanely Kubrick's original film adaptation is still considered one of the landmark films of the horror genre, so anyone attempting a remake, sequel, a prequel or a reboot is bound to draw a lot of ire - like Mick Garris scored in 1997 with his mini-series adaptation despite the project nabbing two Emmy awards.
The signing of Mark Romanek ("Never Let Me Go," "One Hour Photo") to helm, Glen Mazzara ("The Walking Dead," "Damien") to script and Vanderbilt to produce the project has raised curiosity and interest. Speaking with Collider about the film, dubbed "Overlook Hotel," Vanderbilt says it isn't quite the film that people are going to expect:

"You want a real filmmaker like Mark doing it… Honestly I think people will really be excited about it, because it's not like '20 Years Before The Shining!'. I don't want to give too much away about the story but the way [screenwriter] Glen [Mazzara] cracked it and the way Mark has sort of cracked it, it's completely it's own film, which I think is super smart. It's not like, 'When Scatman Crothers was young, he…' it's not that.
One of the things that's amazing about [Mark] is that he's a strong filmmaker with his own convictions, and Mark is gonna make the movie Mark is gonna make… I think there's something wonderful about a director who says, 'No, this is the film.'
Fincher was the same way. It's like, 'This is the movie I wanna make. If you don't wanna make that movie, that's totally cool, then we won't make the movie.' And now as someone who's directed a film, that's kinda what you want. You want the captain of the ship to be like, 'I know what the film is, I know how to make it, let's go do it.'"
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There's still no word as to when the film will go into production.

 

[James.B]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/shining-sequel-doctor-sleep-sets-mike-flanagan-as-director-1078707
Director Mike Flanagan is going back into the world of Stephen King.

Warner Bros. has tapped Flanagan to direct The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Flanagan is known for the Stephen King adaptation 'Gerald's Game.'

The film will adapt King's 2013 novel, which follows Danny Torrance, now an adult and battling alcoholism and dealing with the trauma of what happened to him as a child in a certain haunted Colorado hotel. Along the way, he's presented with an opportunity to use the shining power he discovered in the first book in a way that can help a young girl.

Flanagan directed the well-received King adaptation Gerald's Game for Netflix, which was released last year, and has built a reputation for thoughtful horror through films such as Oculus (2013), Before I Wake (2016) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016).

The Shining, published in 1977, was adapted by Stanley Kubrick into the classic 1980 film starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer who agrees to become the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel during its off season and bringing his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) with him. Things do not go well from there.

For Warner Bros., Doctor Sleep follows the studio's big success with last year's King adaptation It, which earned more than $700 million worldwide on a $35 million budget. A sequel has been set for Sept. 6, 2019.

Here’s the book synopsis:

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival.

 

[Lasirius]

Great choice for director. Flanagan has been knocking everything out of the park.

 

[:eek:]

The Overlook Hotel
Warner Bros.
Back in 2014, Warner Bros was actively looking to expand their "Shining" universe and developed two projects simultaneously. One was "Doctor Sleep," the sequel to the original based on the book by Stephen King. The other was a prequel tentatively titled "The Overlook Hotel" written by "The Walking Dead" showrunner Glen Mazzara and to be directed by Mark Romanek ("One Hour Photo"). The basis for Mazzara's script for "The Overlook Hotel" (which he told me all about on the podcast I host, The Kingcast) was King's supplementary writings on the history of the haunted hotel, "Before the Play." The short book offers a quick summary of all the bad stuff that happened at the Overlook since its construction and focuses on the very first family to stay at that hotel.

Bob T. Watson was the main character, a real Daniel Plainview type, who embarks on a great journey in the newly tamed West to build a grand hotel. Turns out, the mountain is home to a great evil and the hotel gets off to a bad start even before the foundation is laid. Dozens of workers are killed in freak accidents, Bob T.'s own family starts dropping like flies, and cannibal ghosts abound.

The tone of the script found a perfect soft spot between Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick, honoring both very different fathers of "The Shining." This script pulled no punches. 30 pages in, a child chokes to death on the hotel's opening night while a terrified doctor-in-training tries to perform an emergency tracheotomy that goes horribly wrong. This scene was so extreme that it shook off Brad Pitt, who was being courted for the lead. When Mark Romanek joined the project, he envisioned something even grander that went back even further into the history of the haunted landscape, which Mazzara described as equal parts Kubrick's original film and "The Revenant." But that version never even made it into a finished script before "Doctor Sleep" was greenlit and "The Overlook Hotel" was shelved. (Eric Vespe)

Overhyped Horror Films That Were Never Released (slashfilm.com)

 

[DarkKnight88]

I’m glad we got Doctor Sleep instead.

I’m fine without a prequel to The Shining (though I think now JJ Abrams is producing one?)