The book reached the first position on the new york times best seller list for print and ebook fiction, hardcover fiction, and ebook fiction. Tameabby walters fell in love with me when she was a child. Stephen king the shining sequel doctor sleep in the role of dr. Doctor sleep is an ambitious, flawed sequel to the shining. He is a true craftsman of sound and light, no doubt about. A love story about pain, betrayal, getting better, getting even and falling in love all over again. A sequel to one of his most iconic books the shining written 36 years and 51 novelshes pretty scared of that leprechaun ago, when it came out the most recent project that had kings. Mike flanagan on how doctor sleep also honors mick. Stjepan sejics threeissue series harleen takes a mature look at how. I just didnt think it was that great, a lot of the nuance from the book was lost unavoidably perhaps. Stephen king says stanley kubricks the shining is like a big, beautiful.
I think this will be the most anticipated book by mr. Whether you read kings book or saw stanley kubricks 1980 cinematic interpretation of it which stephen king has never endorsed, chances are the shining ranks high on your list of most terrifying things ever. Stephen king himself has said repeatedly that the two might as well be completely different things. Stephen king damns shelley duvalls character in film of the. I am not going to go on and on about how frustrating it must be for someone of kings prolificity and stature to have people think that his best novel was written 22 years and 30some books ago. But in my humble opinion, he is not the best director for character development.
Smashwords knight in shining suit a book by jerilee kaye. Interpretations, also known as theories or readings are fan based interpretations of the meanings of hidden themes found in the 1980 stanley kubrick film version of the 1977 stephen king novel the shining. How harleen lays groundwork for an rrated harley quinn movie. It focuses on an adult danny torrence who continues to struggle with the memories of what happened at the overlook hotel, where his father, jack, was driven mad by the evil forces present there while working as the winter caretaker. Apr 04, 2016 stephen kings shining sequel to be adapted for big screen this article is more than 4 years old the script for doctor sleep, which follows a traumatised middleaged danny, is to be written by. A sequel, titled doctor sleep, was published in 20 summary. The shining, gothic horror novel by stephen king, first published in 1977. John daniel edward torrance is the main character of stephen kings horror novel the shining.
Feb 04, 2016 there are two nearly undeniable truths about stanley kubrick version of stephen kings the shining. Flanagan said, it is an adaptation of the novel doctor sleep, which is stephen kings sequel to his novel, the shining. Kubrick, as a filmmaker, has a unique sensibility for creating beautiful and engaging scenes and settings. The shining is a novel published in 1977 by stephen king, a wellknown american author. Doctor sleep, the sort of sequel to the shining must have slipped below my radar. The shining is a horror novel by american author stephen king. The novel doctor sleep is an official sequel to the shining that king wrote in 20. Mike flanagans spiritual sequel to the shining, doctor sleep, is elevated by great performances by rebecca ferguson, ewan mcgregor, and kyleigh curran. The book is a little better then the movie in my opinion. Doctor sleep is a 20 horror novel by american writer stephen king and the sequel to his 1977 novel the shining. Stephen king has written a lot of books at 56 novels, hes closing in. Jul 25, 2014 of developing a sequel to the shining, based on stephen kings newly published follow updoctor sleep.
Colet abedi is a bestselling author, television and film producer. Im warning you that this book isnt for everyone because theres one thing im sure of and it is the curse of instalove. Sleep, the sk novel that explores what happens to danny as an adult. Its horror, without a doubt, but id class it as more of a supernatural thriller.
Many viewers even some who love the shining find duvalls acting strangely cartoonish with its wild expressions of anxiety and fear. More than 30 years after stephen king terrified us with the shining, hes written a sequel, drawing on his alcoholism and a neardeath experience. Sep 18, 20 creepy kid from the shining back in new stephen king book whatever happened to that kid in stephens king novel the. Stephen kings 20 novel, doctor sleep, which became a bestseller upon release was the sequel to his book the shining which in turn was adapted by stanley kubrick into his modern horror masterpiece. I did like sophies character more in this book and it felt like she matured some between book 1 and book 2. The novel reintroduces the shinings main character, danny torrance, as a grownup. Bruce greenwood boards the shining sequel doctor sleep. From ghastly visions and clairvoyant children to the evil machinations of a haunted hotel, stephen kings 1977 horror classic the shining, and the 1980 movie adaptation by stanley kubrick, have inspired legions of horror books and movies. When shes not writing shes either off on an adventure in a far off land or planning her next getaway. So how happy was i to find this as a great big fat deal of the day on amazon.
But this also exists very much in the same cinematic universe that kubrick established in. Im almost finished reading the shining and have only about twenty more pages left. Doctor sleep looks like a love letter to stephen king. Many viewers even some who love the shining find duvalls acting strangely. Ah, well i hope this movie is good, whether or not it follows the book. Stephen king famously hated stanley kubricks adaptation of the shining. As expected, there are quite a few subversions flanagan makes so lets compare how. Stephen king sets release date for sequel to the shining. Set several decades after jack torrance went mad in the overlook hotel, doctor sleep sees an adult danny ewan mcgregor, an alcoholic struggling to suppress his gift of the shining, share a. Sep 18, 2012 stephen king revealed the release date for his novel doctor sleep, a sequel to the shining, will be sept. Whatever happened to that kid in stephens king novel the shining. If audiences go in expecting a sequel to the shining but doesnt really deliver on being a sequel to the shining then that would be bad.
Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time. The book, the shining, is a literary masterpiece written by stephen king. A sequel to the shining is getting made based on the book dr. The shining is one of kings bestloved works, inspiring such devotion that one fan went so far as to recreate an 80page version of the book written by jack torrance when he goes mad, endlessly. And i mean specifically, kubricks movie, as i understand the book was different from the movie and that king apparently wasnt a fan. Stephen king, who crafted the novel that was adapted into the terrifying 1980 film, read from excerpts of the shinings sequel, dr. Doctor sleep the long awaited sequel to the shining now. Dont touch kubrick films, unless youre an equally as mad genius whose perfectionist work borders on the insane. Please note that im just talking about the movie here, not the book. With ewan mcgregor, rebecca ferguson, kyliegh curran, cliff curtis. Stephen kings biggest problem with stanley kubricks version. It is regarded in some quarters as kings best book. How doctor sleep is both a sequel to stephen kings and.
Theres a sequel to the shining, but its going to come in book form first. A funeral procession passes us on the left, as we ride a shuttle to blackhall studios in atlanta, the soundstages where doctor sleep, the sequel to the shining, is being filmed. King does a good job in all of his books to keep a relatively gloomy sensation while reading them. Perhaps harder to believe than the fact that stanley kubricks the shining which turns 36 today wasnt universally beloved by critics in 1980 is the idea that it was nominated for two. I understand stephen king writing a sequel in order to cash in on the shinings reputation, but this movie looks like standard throwaway horror schlock. Stephen king says stanley kubricks the shining is like a big. Jun, 2019 return to stephen kings the shining with ewan mcgregor as danny in doctor sleep.
Sep 28, 2011 theres a sequel to the shining, but its going to come in book form first. The director of the shining sequel knows he had an. Doctor sleep is an ambitious, flawed sequel to the shining book and movie. Now, here are a few reasons danny torrance was the real villain of the shining. Stephen kings shining sequel to be adapted for big screen.
Its also a film that revisits and recontextualizes stanley. The discomforting legacy of wendy torrance vulture. But, in his reaction to mike flanagans new doctor sleep sequel he says it redeems the original movie. May 23, 2016 perhaps harder to believe than the fact that stanley kubricks the shining which turns 36 today wasnt universally beloved by critics in 1980 is the idea that it was nominated for two. Stephen kings shining sequel doctor sleep coming next. Harley quinn by bruce timm from batman animation series bruce timm, dc comics, comics. In the sequel novel doctor sleep 20, danny now going by dan learns that jack is also the biological father of lucy stone, a woman whose. A presold prefab blockbuster, what with kings carrie hitting the moviehouses, salems lot being lensed, the shining itself sold to warner bros. But every tear, every pain and every laughter is worth believing that fairy tales still happen in real life. Elements of mad love, were later established as the canonical origin for. I dont think the people that didnt read the book realize this. Oct 10, 2018 we now know one more way that the shining sequel doctor sleep will be similar to its predecessorit will likely be rated r. Stephen king himself, famously not a fan of the film adaptation of his book, was downright. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name, which was released on november 8, 2019 in the united states.
The shining 1977, psychological horror by stephen king. While the film doctor sleep is intended to be a direct adaptation of the 20 sequel novel, director mike flanagan said doctor sleep still acknowledges kubricks the shining in some way. It will be a sequel to the shining, and carrie will be in it. Sleep, at a recent appearance at george mason university, slashfilm reports. Stephen kings sequel to the shining is coming to the big. With recent smash hit adaptations like it, geralds game, and even a tv series, castle rock, it seems like theres a new king adaptation every week. Mad love has an awful instalove, but the fact that the author has such a cutesy writing style, it became so much bearable for me. Published in 1977, it is kings third published novel and first hardback bestseller. But hey, im not complaining, especially when the latest of these adaptations is the longawaited sequel to the shining. Starring ewan mcgregor as an adult danny torrance, flanagans doctor sleep follows the nowgrown torrance as he fights his demons and faces down a new supernatural threat.
Inevitably doctor sleep, like most of king books, has been optioned and is to be made into a film and is. I thought the book was good, but i wouldnt consider it horror as the shining was. Jack torrance takes a job as a caretaker of the isolated overlook hotel in the colorado mountains. Doctor sleep comes out this friday, the sequel to the 1980 iconic horror masterpiece the shining from director stanley kubrick featuring jack nicholson in one of the most grandiose wildeyed. It is an adaptation of the novel doctor sleep, which is stephen kings sequel to his novel, the shining. She wrote a novelization and sequel to lost in space, novelizations of two episodes of the. In the book, hes a guy whos struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. Doctor sleep won the 20 bram stoker award for best novel.
Doctor sleep looks like a love letter to stephen king and stanley kubrick june, 2019 2. The shining, by stephen king, is slowly but surely changing that perception. I obviously seen and love kubricks the shining, one of my favourite films of all time but ive also seen the one stephen king made for tv and feck me its dog shit. He was renowned for using supernatural events in many of his stories making them a mixture of horror, gloom, and fantasy. Stephen king has finally written a sequel to the shining. Plot details revealed for stephen kings the shining sequel.
I understand stephen king writing a sequel in order to cash in on the shining s reputation, but this movie looks like standard throwaway horror schlock. The followup is based on stephen kings novel of the same name. Stanley, for his part, was more interested in the baroque aspects of steves book, and saw jack as a man who was mad all along, and just looking. Creepy kid from the shining back in new stephen king book. The shining sequel doctor sleep will be rated r collider. I would have liked to have seen 1980 special effects departments tackling the vicious topiary animals from the book. The following article contains spoilers for doctor sleep, in theaters now director mike flanagan covers a lot of ground connecting his adaptation of stephen kings doctor sleep, not just to its parent book, but also to the shining, as its a sequel to both stanley kubricks movie as well as the novel. He talks about being a drunk father and why the twilight series is just tweenager porn. The book reached the first position on the new york times best seller list for print and ebook fiction combined, hardcover fiction, and ebook fiction. Jun, 2019 i love both the film and the book of the original shining but i think the book was a bit better.
Doctor sleep trailer shining sequel reaction youtube. Kings book picks up with a middleaged danny torrance years after the events at the overlook hotel, still psychic but in. It makes jack less of a villain more of a ghost influenced, then possessed person and you get to see more of why he is sorta on the edge. May 10, 2012 way back in november of 2009 we got word that stephen king was working on a sequel novel to the shining, the book on which the classic stanley kubrick horror film of the same name is based. The actor who played the child, dan lloyd, is now living in louisville. Lies, and videotape sequel in quarantine and is eager to direct it a first.
The description of greenwoods character is being kept under wr. King answers that question with his new book, doctor sleep, delving back into. Doctor sleep sequel to the shining trailers neogaf. Mass market paperback in stock more buying choices mass market paperback. The man behind the shining sequel talks kubrick, king, and.
Mike flanagan gets the look of his film right, but faithfully following stephen kings disjointed plot drains the. Oct 17, 20 whether you read kings book or saw stanley kubricks 1980 cinematic interpretation of it which stephen king has never endorsed, chances are the shining ranks high on your list of most terrifying things ever. The follow up to mad love, mad love 2, left me wanting. Years following the events of the shining 1980, a nowadult dan torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as the true knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. I do like the movie to, but personally, i like the book a bit more. It was certainly much maligned back in 1980, but then. Sleep and will be out at the end of the summer in 20. One is that the shining is an absolutely terrifying horror movie. Unhappy with the way hollywood treated forrest gump by. Read the book for the sequel and will give this a go, but it wont be as good as the original as the book isnt as strong.
Oct 29, 2019 recently, moviegoers returned to the overlook hotel in mike flanagans adaptation of doctor sleep, kings 20 sequel to the shining. On a tropical island vacation, virgin sophie walker turns up the heat with british. Mike flanagan on how doctor sleep also honors mick garriss. In the book there is all this build up as to why jack goes mad, it makes sense given all you know about him, why his character lets the overlook twist him. Jun, 2019 the horror author has disavowed the 1980 adaptation of the shining, but the sequel has his stamp of approval. I am so obsessed with colet abedis mad love book series, so when i learned that.
The shining cannot be replicated, but doctor sleep is a powerful continuation that haunts the reader in a similar way. He writes a sequel to a beloved book that not only doesnt diminish the shining but actually adds to it. Is stephen kings the shining sequel doctor sleep any good. Flanagan rewrote akiva goldsmans adaptation of stephen kings 20 novel that picks up. Many of the interpretations of the shining, especially those on the room 237 documentary have been mistakenly labeled as conspiracy theories. Way back in november of 2009 we got word that stephen king was working on a sequel novel to the shining, the book on which the classic stanley kubrick horror film. Mad love is one of those stories that judges love as something more physical than intimate. I first read the shining at age 12 and have been a fan ever since. A sequel, titled doctor sleep, was published in 20. It isnt often i say a book is unputdownable, but its the only word that covers it. The movie, the shining, is a cinematic masterpiece directed by stanley kubrick.
Nov 08, 2019 he writes a sequel to a beloved book that not only doesnt diminish the shining but actually adds to it. He moves with his family, son danny and wife winnie, into the hotel for the winter. Theyre about how the love of a girl can turn a bad boy good. Sleep 20 by stephen king deadline is reporting that the film is being rushed into production with geralds game mike flanagan scheduled to direct the story continues decades after the events of the overlook hotel in which a young danny torrance was terrorized by his possessed alcoholic father.
Its not a haunted house movie, its a haunted person story. Plot details revealed for stephen kings the shining. I also enjoyed dramas on the side with eric and ories characters i love them as friends and wish i had them in my life. Doctor sleep takes off years after the end of the shining, and while. Doctor sleep the long awaited sequel to the shining. Im in the minority i think, i deeply disliked the shining film. In a world of scarlett sequel to gone with the wind or the book of the green planet. Doctor sleep is an ambitious, flawed sequel to the. Doctor sleep looks like a love letter to stephen king and.
Since the upcoming movie is a sequel both to kings bestselling book and kubricks iconic film, it will be unpredictable for both newcomers and fans. Jun, 2019 dont touch kubrick films, unless youre an equally as mad genius whose perfectionist work borders on the insane. Recently, moviegoers returned to the overlook hotel in mike flanagans adaptation of doctor sleep, kings 20 sequel to the shining. Please, for some strange unknown reason, i havent had a chance to read dr. The setting is the overlook, a palatial resort on a colorado mountain top, snowbound and closed down for the long, long. Comic book characters, comic books art, comic art, comics girls, fun comics, adventure time girls, super heroine.
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