I included the first scene in its entirety below: Scene 5 recounts the mob hit in the presidential room in gory detail. Scene 4 explains the accident when Jack Torrance had his arm broken by his drunk father. Scene 3 describes the Grand Masquerade Ball and the death of the lover of Horace Derwent.

Scene 2 depicts the nightmares experienced by Lottie Pillsbury during her honeymoon at the Overlook. Scene 1 chronicles the construction of the Overlook Hotel and the death of the owners son. There are 5 scenes that make up the prologue: If you’re curious, I shared the first scene of it below. There’s a lot of cool and interesting stuff in the deleted prologue of The Shining. All we know about that series is that it will feature iconic characters from The Shining, and it “explores the untold, terrifying stories of the most famous haunted hotel in American fiction.” Maybe Abrams should take some notes from what Romanak was doing.

Abrams’ upcoming Overlook series that is coming to HBO Max. Who knows, maybe we’ll get something like that from J.J. And that was really the thing that sort of killed it, unfortunately.'ĭamn, that would have been cool. And the film is just, by nature of the story building, this massive hotel and creating a period piece, and it seemed too costly to them. They weren't confident enough that there was going to be this, what the studios would call a ' Shining universe' that they were going to start building, to justify the cost. It was epic, and I think the problem really was just the budget. I can't remember the name of the character that built the hotel now, but it's the desecration of the Indian burial ground and the construction of the Overlook Hotel in the deep wilderness in 1910, and it builds to the grand opening of the hotel. It was more like a wilderness tale set in the very early twentieth century. And what it finally got down to was, really, an origin story. 'We got the blessing from Stephen King, the script was written, and then I took it upon myself to elaborately rewrite that script. And a terrific producer named Brad Fischer who's done things like Shutter Island and Zodiac and really excellent films, he got this idea to try to adapt that prologue. So there's a brief prologue that he wrote that just is fascinating material and a fascinating basis for a new story. 'We weren't trying to milk this classic genre movie for just 'Let's milk it for something.’ There was a prologue that Stephen King wrote for the novel originally when it was published in 1977, and it was cut for length. During a recent interview, Romanek offered some details on what he was looking to do with the film and it sounds like something I would have loved to see.

The script for the movie was written by Glen Mazzara ( The Walking Dead) but unfortunately, the project never ended up coming to fruition. Mark Hamill and His Return of the Jedi Prop Lightsaber Reunite in Pop Culture Quest Clip

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