“And so, the first conversation we had to have … other than that we as fans of King and apostles of The Shining, really needed to try to bring those worlds back together again, we had to go to King and explain how.” Of course, in 1980 Kubrick turned King’s book into a cinematic masterpiece, albeit one very different from its source material, so much so that the author hasn’t been shy about criticizing it, and even defiantly writing Doctor Sleep as though “this exists completely outside of the Kubrick universe,” continued Flanagan.
“Which has been, you know, no pressure whatsoever,” joked Flanagan - a “Stephen King fanatic” going back to his childhood, and a “student of cinema” who “idolized" Kubrick. “First and foremost the movie is kind of its own thing and has been embraced by the Kubrick Estate and by King, kind of as such but in a very real sense, we're standing on the shoulders of literary and cinematic giants,” said Flanagan's producing partner, Trevor Macy, during a screening of the teaser footage in Los Angeles that SYFY WIRE attended. Even so, the production sought approval from both sides of the divide before moving forward. Not only is the film based on the 2013 novel by Stephen King, it's also a sequel to The Shining, featuring a grown-up version of Danny Torrance (played by Ewan McGregor), who is still reeling from the mental trauma of the Overlook Hotel.īack in October, Flanagan (creator of The Haunting of Hill House for Netflix), who is both writing and directing here, confirmed his movie would pay homage to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining an adaptation that King is well-known for disliking. shook the first teaser trailer for Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleepawake.
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