The Shining must be a lot of peoples minds lately. Steven King has penned a sequel to the original novel, Doctor Sleep (released this September), which sees hero Danny Torrance all grown up and battling vampires who feed off children with psychic gifts, and now Warner Bros. are going back to the well also, with a prequel, The Overlook Hotel, to Stanley Kubrick's classic adaption of the novel in the works. Former The Walking Dead show runner Glen Mazzara has being brought on to write the script, which, going by the name, will focus on the infamous hotel which provided the setting for the events of the movie.
There's no word on the story, but there is any number of places the movie can jump from, anything from the hotel's construction on an ancient Indian burial ground, to the 1920's parties that are the focus of the supernatural manifestations, or even the final days of the hotel's previous caretaker, whose brush with the hotel's malevolent forces provided the starting point for the film.
via Deadline
There's no word on the story, but there is any number of places the movie can jump from, anything from the hotel's construction on an ancient Indian burial ground, to the 1920's parties that are the focus of the supernatural manifestations, or even the final days of the hotel's previous caretaker, whose brush with the hotel's malevolent forces provided the starting point for the film.
via Deadline
