[Movies] Stephen King Working On The Shining Sequel?!
Posted by Ashish on 11.26.2009
RED RUM!!!!
Stephen King is apparently working on a sequel to The Shining. The 1977 novel ended up being turned into a classic horror film starring Jack Nicholson. King confirmed the sequel plans during an appearance in Toronto this week, adding that the story will be set 40 years later and focus around the Danny character. The sequel is tentatively titled Doctor Sleep.
Billy and the Clonesauras? Oh, you have got to be kidding sir. First you think of an idea that has already been done. Then you give it a title that nobody could possibly like. Didn't you think this through... it was on the bestseller list for eighteen months! Every magazine cover had... one of the most popular movies of all time, sir! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? I mean, thank you, come again.
Posted By: Apu (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:20 PM
Doctor Sleep, eh?
sounds about right, since nearly everything he has written since 1983 has put me to sleep.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Queue the complainers that couldn't care less about his entire body of work regardless in 5...4...3...2...1...
Posted By: SomeDude (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Kewl.
Posted By: Propagandhi (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:57 PM
I couldn't care less about his entire body of work.
Posted By: Complainer (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Actually, I was at the event where he "confirmed" the Shining sequel (A week ago today -- you guys are pretty behind on this "news"). What ACTUALLY happened is that he said he had an idea of what he would be interested in writing about IF he WERE to do a sequel. He is intrigued by the idea of where an adult Danny would be today, but said himself that it's just as likely as not he won't get around to ever writing it. This isn't news -- just rumours from a man from the top of his head.
Posted By: Jason (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 04:19 PM
Stephan King could get drunk, be raped by monkeys while writing a book in 45 minutes and it would still be better than Twilight!
Posted By: The Dutch (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 04:20 PM
"Doctor Sleep, eh?
sounds about right, since nearly everything he has written since 1983 has put me to sleep.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM"
Kind of like any and all of your comments? And you knock what he's written since 1983, yet you read/watched all of it? Jackass.
Posted By: Rusty Thorne (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 04:39 PM
Sounds like its a sequel in that it reuses a starring character. I wouldn't think there's anything wrong with that, and it's not really out of line with reusing places, or minor characters in seperate stories as he's done before.
Posted By: KSutton (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 04:48 PM
It's not "RED RUM" you fucking moron! It's "REDRUM" (with some reversed letters of course)!
Posted By: ASH ISH (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 05:31 PM
Que the idiots who say que...
Posted By: AG Awesome (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 05:57 PM
Doctor Sleep, eh?
sounds about right, since nearly everything he has written since 1983 has put me to sleep.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Maybe the books were too complicated for your feeble mind?
But seriously, since 83!? granted he's had some misses, but books released since 83 include:
The Talisman
IT
Misery
Tommyknockers
The Stand
The Green Mile &
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
ALL Excellent books. do some research man.
Posted By: Pat (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Doctor Sleep, eh?
sounds about right, since nearly everything he has written since 1983 has put me to sleep.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Maybe the books were too complicated for your feeble mind?
But seriously, since 83!? granted he's had some misses, but books released since 83 include:
The Talisman
IT
Misery
Tommyknockers
The Stand
The Green Mile &
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
ALL Excellent books. do some research man.
Posted By: Pat (Guest) on November 26, 2009 at 11:48 PM
BURN
Posted By: marc (Guest) on November 27, 2009 at 02:31 AM
sure, why not? i'm currently re-reading the shining, and, coincidentally, was thinking about if king would ever write a story about danny when he's older...
Posted By: hans moleman (Guest) on November 27, 2009 at 02:52 AM
'But seriously, since 83!? granted he's had some misses, but books released since 83 include:
The Talisman
IT
Misery
Tommyknockers
The Stand
The Green Mile &
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
ALL Excellent books. do some research man.'
i will give you Green Mile and Misery, and will quantify The Stand as good before he doubled it in sized with zero content, otherwise, i stand by my statement.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on November 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Oh, NOES! A writer who created a character is thinking about using that character in a different story! ALAS! ALACK! IS THER NO ORIGINALITY LEFT??? (rending clothes and rubbing ashes on face)
Posted By: David O (Guest) on November 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM
will give you Green Mile and Misery, and will quantify The Stand as good before he doubled it in sized with zero content, otherwise, i stand by my statement.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on November 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Fortunately for King, the rest of the world are not some bitter Internet denizen, who complains and criticizes everything, and are capable of enjoying good books.
Posted By: Alex (Guest) on November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM
What gets me is that he concedes 3 books, but still stands by his opinion that NONE of the books since '83 were good. You know, except the three he admits were.
Posted By: pd (Guest) on November 29, 2009 at 03:24 PM
Wow Mortis... what is your problem? Why do you hate EVERYTHING? Yes... sturgeon's law-- 90% of everything is recycled garbage, but damn that doesn't mean none of it can ever be enjoyable.
The Stand was terrific, the uncut wasn't awful... it added the whole "Flagg's not dead" bit at the end (which is nice since loyal readers would come to see him again several times).
The Talisman is really good, Insomnia wasn't awful, obviously there's quite a few Dark Tower books in there (even if they did decline in quality the closer they got to the end they were still FUN).
Posted By: Madcapunlimited (Guest) on November 30, 2009 at 01:32 PM
