The 'All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy' moment. In fact, most of the iconic elements from the film weren't in King's pages. It invented the visuals of the 'Grady Twins' ghosts. It killed off Halloran, who's still a character in the Doctor Sleep novel. The original film has things, and does things, that aren't in either of King's books. Play BLENDING SHININGSThe trick now, for writer/director Mike Flanagan, was to make this Doctor Sleep story exist in the same cinematic universe as the Kubrick movie. cover a lot of the first book? We'll avoid major Doctor Sleep spoilers here, so just consider this a primer that sets up the movie. But how do you adapt this particular book into a movie when the classic movie based on the first book doesn't exactly. In 2013, King released his book sequel to The Shining. The rub here, for King, is that it's actually because of Kubrick's vagueness, because the film lacked those harder explanations of the Overlook Hotel's powers, that it's considered one of the scariest films ever.

Eventually, an adaptation much closer to the book came out in 1997, as a three-episode TV miniseries, and while it was a ratings hit there was no way Kubrick's version of The Shining was ever going to be seen as anything other than the definitive Shining. King famously resented the movie, as Kubrick's film left a bunch of details from the novel out. It's also arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King book. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is one of the most well-regarded horror movies of all time - a standout not only of the genre but of cinema itself.

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