The novelist “flipped” for Mike Flanagan’s new movie.
“I used to call it a Cadillac with no engine in it.
you’re able to’t do anything with it except admire it as a sculpture.
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You’ve taken away its primary purpose, which is to tell a story.
The basic difference that tells you all you’re gonna wanna know is the ending.
It’s a very passionate climax.
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In Kubrick’s movie, he freezes to death.”
There’s no other language to tell that story in.
If you say ‘Overlook Hotel,’ Iseesomething.
It lives right up in my brain because of Stanley Kubrick.
you’re free to’t pretend that isn’t the case.
And then I said, ‘Well, let me tell you how I would approach it.’
I pitched him one scene inside the Overlook.
King himself says he was won over by both Flanagan’s track record and his screenplay for the movie.
“I read the script to this one very, very carefully,” the writer tells EW.
“He says, ‘The book is the book and I want the movie to be yours.
I don’t want to interfere.’
So, there’s this huge fear.
Fortunately for Flanagan, KingdidenjoyDoctor Sleep, which he watched in the company of the filmmaker.
“This was really cool,” says the director.
I sat with him in an empty theater and watched the movie with him.
And then I just died.
He was like, ‘Having watched this film it actually warms my feelings up towards the Kubrick film.
‘That’swhen I really kind of freaked out.
So, yeah, I liked it a lot.”
Doctor SleepstarsEwan McGregor,Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, andJacob Tremblay.
