A sequel to the 1980 horror movie The Shining is set to be released by the eighth of November, nearly 40 years after the oft-quoted Stanley Kubrick classic was originally unleashed.
Explaining this movie is strange: it is based on the 2013 novel Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, which is a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining, which the 1980 movie was based on. So the new movie is at the same time a sequel to the movie and an adaptation of a book the said movie was based on. Weird, right?
The story revolves around a grown up Danny Torrence, the little boy from the original story gifted with psychic abilities known as the “shine.” He deals with the trauma he suffered at the haunted Overlook Hotel while helping a psychic little girl evade a cult who look to feed off of her “shine.”
Kubrick’s film has rightly cemented itself as a staple of the horror genre, iconic enough that phrases such as “Here’s Johnny” and “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” are forever tied to it, even though both quotes were pulled from elsewhere (a talk show catchphrase and an old proverb, respectively). Creating a follow-up to such a beloved and recognizable movie may prove difficult for director Mike Flanagan, but with a long list of horror films under his belt, and the approval of King (who in the past has been vocal in his criticism of Kubrick’s adaptation of his book), he might be able to pull it off.
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