![]() ![]() There’s a version of this film where you could have just said, ‘This is a new story. Flanagan, the showrunner of Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and the director of previous King adaptation Gerald’s Game, explained how he merged the worlds of King and Kubrick, laying down rules to ensure he was playing with their toys without playing with their bones. In the new movie, Hallorann still appears, but as a spectral guide-evidence that, even though Doctor Sleep is more like King’s version of the world than Kubrick’s film, there’s still room for change. In Kubrick’s film, the hotel cook Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers), who comes to their rescue, is killed, but in King’s novel he survives, and is still alive as a very elderly man in the beginning of the Doctor Sleep novel. The Doctor Sleep novel differs from Kubrick’s adaptation in a number of ways that Flanagan had to bridge. Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation of The Shining throws an equally long shadow, beloved by generations (if not King himself) for forever visualizing the Overlook as a mind-bending labyrinth, haunted by tortured souls who become the torturers. Even Stephen King, who first imagined the malevolent mountain retreat in his 1977 best-seller, was hesitant to return to that locale when he began writing the 2013 follow-up. ![]() The Overlook Hotel is a landmark in horror storytelling. ![]()
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