![]() ![]() The film ended, and the credits came up, and he leaned over and he put his hand on my shoulder, and he said, 'You did a beautiful job.' And then I just died. I spent the whole movie trying not to throw up, and staring at my own foot, and kind of overanalyzing every single noise he made next to me. ![]() I sat with him in an empty theater and watched the movie with him. "I finished the movie, I brought the film to Bangor,, and I showed him Doctor Sleep. "This was really cool," says the director. I pitched him one scene, and then he thought about it, and he came back, and said, 'Okay, then go ahead.'" I said, 'The rest of the story, I'm going to try and stay as faithful as I possibly can, but the final fight will take place - instead of on the grounds that used to be the Overlook - it's actually inside the space. ![]() And then I said, 'Well, let me tell you how I would approach it.' I pitched him one scene inside the Overlook. It lives right up in my brain because of Stanley Kubrick. If you say 'Overlook Hotel,' I see something. There's no other language to tell that story in. ![]() " The Shining is so ubiquitous and has burned itself into the collective imagination of people who love cinema in a way that so few movies have. "I said, 'Look, I'm a King fanatic, I have been since I'm a kid, you are my hero, but when I read Doctor Sleep, all the images in my head were Kubrick's images,'" says the filmmaker, whose other credits include the TV show The Haunting of Hill House and a previous King adaptation, 2017's Gerald's Game. ![]()
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