>“When it came to trying to crack the adaptation, I went back to the book first,” says Flanagan, who previously directed the well-received King adaptation Gerald’s Game. “The big conversation that we had to have was about whether or not we could still do a faithful adaptation of the novel as King had laid it out while inhabiting the universe that Kubrick had created. And that was a conversation that we had to have with Stephen King, to kick the whole thing off, and if that conversation hadn’t gone the way it went, we wouldn’t have done the film. Stephen King’s opinions about the Kubrick adaptation are famous, and complicated, and complicated to the point where, if you’ve read [Doctor Sleep], you know that he actively and intentionally ignored everything that Kubrick had changed about his novel, and kind of defiantly said, ‘Nope, this completely exists outside the Kubrick universe.’ We really needed to try to bring those worlds back together again. We had to go to King and explain how… and in particular how to get into the vision of the Overlook that Kubrick had created. And our pitches to Stephen went over surprisingly well, and we came out of the conversation with not only his blessing to do what we ended up doing, but his encouragement.”
King's a coked up hack, with enough flattery you could convince him of anything.
Luis Hall
>with enough flattery you could convince him of anything
This is the perfect way of describing him
Wyatt Wright
You mean >with enough coke
Jayden Wood
Based Kubrick dabbing on Cuck King from the grave
Bentley Howard
what the fuck are they thinking?
Matthew Myers
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Joseph Edwards
It’s fucking disgusting that they’re leaning so heavily on Kubrick’s film. I have no idea why, but I thought they’d be more respectful than to plaster The Shining all over the trailer and marketing for this movie. For me, The Shining belongs in an untouchable category that studios should never fuck with.
Brayden Stewart
>WB >Thinking
Michael Morales
>Director cucks author from the grave TOP FUCKING KEK
The last Stephen King adaption they did earned them 700mil. IT and the Shining are his two biggest books. It's not like they're adapting shit like Pet Sematary
Isaac Butler
Stephen King is just upset that someone (who is the absolute fucking master of his craft) created a better story than Stephen King himself (self proclaimed master of his craft)
Christopher Wood
Doctor Sleep is the only book I have gotten legitimately angry at.
Camden Martin
Why?
Andrew Lewis
>our pitches to Stephen went over surprisingly well, and we came out of the conversation with not only his blessing to do what we ended up doing, but his encouragement.” That's not good.
Zachary Lee
Because aside from being complete awful on its own, it goes out of it's way to piss on the original book.
Logan Young
>"I have a report here saying Trump prefers the book to Kubrick's adaptation." >"That piece of shit I wrote? Worst mistake of my career. Stanley was a genius and we worked together behind the scenes for--"
Jordan Flores
based Kubrick
David Watson
heh
Jayden Baker
he preferred to coast off the success of kubrick's work than stick to the source material. what a fag
Isaiah Adams
It's that simple, folks. King is pask his prime and never really cared about the direction filmmakers took his stories as long as he was getting paid.
Landon Gray
He sold the rights to one of his stories for a Polish sausage, he basically give anyone the rights to his stuff if your nice to him
Lincoln Robinson
Doubt it, he was high on all variety of drugs in the past and was into having his movies done as accurate to his books as possible even if it wouldn't work as well in a movie.
Zachary Green
Name 1 time the filmmaker's didn't fuck his nerdy little books.
Chase Flores
Langoliers.
Jacob James
Most of the TV movies. They're typically the most accurate to the books.
Nolan Foster
user.. i ...
Eli Carter
Flannagan is a better writer than anything King has done in 30 years
David Myers
Wait so Dick Halloran is still alive in this movie?
David Cruz
>durrr, king are bad writah! Reminder that Yea Forums bases this off the fact that several adaptations failed hard and can't read 300+ pages of a book to see what the books are about. his endings do fail quite often but they are exceptionally more often that not till the last 10%
Kayden Collins
He survived in the book.
Easton Edwards
i said 30 years
Easton Myers
Duma Key. or that JFK (11/23/73?) book.
Hunter Sanders
King can't get a break. No one wants his terrible tv movie
Chase Allen
I agree. I'm just going to ignore this one.
Juan Ross
Why make a big deal out of this, do you think King gives a shit? they just gave him a giant bag of money and that was it
William Nguyen
>outside the Kubrick film So, there won't be any nigger cooks?
Joshua Morales
the shining movie is what is most popular with the general audience, not the book. the book decided to stray away from what the movie established. audience could be confused when doctor sleep isn’t a sequel to the shinning movie
Jace Lewis
*the dr sleep book strayed away
Leo Gomez
the general audience of today give no shits about Kubrick's Shining
Jayden Collins
King, on his last book, shits on Kubrick. 40 years latter and he's still mad.
Angel Campbell
>blue grey modern hollywood color correction I fucking hate this
Cooper Walker
Not only did he survive, he played an extremely important role as if to say "fuck you kubrick" with each line of dialogue.
Cooper Jackson
>a movie that deviated from the book has a sequel that continues after what the previous movie establishes instead of the book's sequel I don't see what the issue is in the first place?
It'd only make sense if its like It where they rebooted the franchise to be more faithful.
>It's not like they're adapting shit like Pet Sematary haha yeah wouldn't that be silly haha
Benjamin Ortiz
the film is not about the book. Kubrick makes this very clear by showing the book, represented by the red beetle is destroyed, while Kubrick's story, represented by the yellow beetle, will be told
