![]() ![]() “It’s like the kid in The Shining, in that it has the DNA of its parents-King and Kubrick-but this descendent still had to find its own identity in the world. So I preferred very much to look at it as a descendent to The Shining rather than a sequel,” he explains. “Any time I said ‘sequel to The Shining’ in my own head, I panicked a little bit. Nonetheless, no amount of pressure could dissuade the 41-year-old filmmaker from tackling King’s 2013 novel Doctor Sleep-and the key to overcoming it, he says, was the right frame of mind. It’s the most intimidating and daunting project I’ve ever worked on.” “I’ve lost so much sleep trying to navigate through this. 30 (via sneak peeks it opens wide on Nov. “I’ve felt like I wanted to throw up for the last two years, every day,” he chuckles, shortly before his latest debuted in theaters on Oct. Yeah, Mike Flanagan knows he’s taken a big risk with Doctor Sleep. ![]() Making a sequel to The Shining that simultaneously respects Stephen King’s original 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film, which King famously disliked? ![]()
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