King Planning Sequel to THE SHINING |
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Posted: November/25/2009 at 5:48am |
Last night at Toronto’s packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a 15-minute reading from the author’s new novel, Under the Dome, and nearly an hour’s worth of typically funny anecdotes and keen observations during an on-stage interview with director David Cronenberg. Then King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began working on last summer. Seems King was wondering whatever happened to Danny Torrance of The Shining, who when readers last saw him was recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who dies in the Kubrick film version). King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, the Overlook was bound to have left young Danny with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars. What Danny made of those traumatic experiences, and with the psychic powers that saved him from his father at the Overlook, is a question that King believes might make a damn fine sequel.
So what would a sequel to one of King’s most beloved novels look like? In King’s still tentative plan for the novel, Danny is now 40 years old and living in upstate New York, where he works as the equivalent of an orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill. Danny’s real job is to visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers. Danny also has a sideline in betting on the horses, a trick he learned from his buddy Dick Hallorann. The title for King’s proposed sequel? Doctor Sleep. Perhaps sensing that he’d let the cat out of the plot bag a little early, King then told Cronenberg and the audience that he wasn’t completely committed to the new novel, going so far as to say, “Maybe if I keep talking about it I won’t have to write it.” Toronto news Article |
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Not sure about tihs. The Shining is one of my favorites and doesn't really need a sequel I don't think.
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Noooooooo the shining left on such a good note there should be no sequel.
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I think we're unanimous on this one!
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It is rare that a sequel will live up to expectations. I don't know what year THE SHINING was written, my guess is late 70's or so. Anyway, that story was written with late 70's technology, and attire, and architecture...etc. A sequel 30 years later would have huge changes, even if the story is picked up 6 months later. I know my dates may be off, but you know what I mean. Maybe it is just me, but I would rather see a sequel to DREAMCATCHERS or THE EYES OF THE DRAGON.
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