I'm talking about the actual Overlook still standing and being a set piece in this instead of the book where it was torn down. And the callbacks to the Kubrick film.
Doctor Sleep aka The Shining 2 thread (Ewan McGregor to star)
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Turns out the only footage from The Shining was the blood coming out of the elevators; the rest is recreation.
average person knows nothing about it so they got to milk the shining for all they can get
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Gonna be interesting to see how Flanagan pulls this off. I hope it doesn't end up being a situation where he tries so hard to stay true to both Kubrick and King's visions that it ends up being a mess. Kubrick's Shining and King's Shining are completely different from one another regarding their tone and the messages they were trying to convey.
Yup makes sense. I just didn’t think they’d lean THAT hard into it. Taking the music too
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Damn, how am I now just finding out about this?! 
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@Nicole0416 are we in this one at least or nah
@Nicole0416 are we in this one at least or nah
You've been saying that since the Halloween release. That's however many months and 3 movies later, we can try- third time is a charm 
[Interview] Eight New Things We’ve Learned About ‘Doctor Sleep’!
interesting background on the movie. @MartyMcFly @The Chief , answers to the questions about the horror concept of this movie:
Doctor Sleep Was Not Made Like a Modern Horror Movie
The Shining may be a classic horror movie, but some younger audiences might not fall under its spell, since trends of horror have evolved in the ensuing decades. It’s a concern that Flanagan thinks he has an answer to.
“It’s interesting because I’ve had that experience where I’ve shown someone The Shining and they don’t see what the fuss is about,” the director explained.
“I think one of the solutions to that for us was we never approached this movie as a horror movie. We always wanted to try to come at it from a different side. We’ve done that for a lot of our things but I don’t know if it’s ever been more true than with this one,” he continued. “It has horrific elements, absolutely, but one of the things that we were trying to be very careful to do is not to create the expectation that this is a modern horror movie in the way that people expect it.
“One of the questions that I would ask,” Flanagan added, “when we were developing the project and when we were talking about the metered expectations audiences have about, in particular, jump scares and startles and the pacing of those, which we’re utterly uninterested in this film, [was] I would say, ‘What’s your favorite jump scare in The Shining?’”
“There isn’t one. The same is true here. We used a lot of the lessons that Kubrick taught us about how to do a psychological thriller, a supernatural thriller, in a way that is more about suffocating atmosphere and tension than it ever is about the kind of traditional scares as we understand them today,” Flanagan concluded. “So in light of that, we have been very careful not to make the kind of movie that those audiences would expect.”"
interesting background on the movie. @MartyMcFly @The Chief , answers to the questions about the horror concept of this movie:
Doctor Sleep Was Not Made Like a Modern Horror Movie
The Shining may be a classic horror movie, but some younger audiences might not fall under its spell, since trends of horror have evolved in the ensuing decades. It’s a concern that Flanagan thinks he has an answer to.
“It’s interesting because I’ve had that experience where I’ve shown someone The Shining and they don’t see what the fuss is about,” the director explained.
“I think one of the solutions to that for us was we never approached this movie as a horror movie. We always wanted to try to come at it from a different side. We’ve done that for a lot of our things but I don’t know if it’s ever been more true than with this one,” he continued. “It has horrific elements, absolutely, but one of the things that we were trying to be very careful to do is not to create the expectation that this is a modern horror movie in the way that people expect it.
“One of the questions that I would ask,” Flanagan added, “when we were developing the project and when we were talking about the metered expectations audiences have about, in particular, jump scares and startles and the pacing of those, which we’re utterly uninterested in this film, [was] I would say, ‘What’s your favorite jump scare in The Shining?’”
“There isn’t one. The same is true here. We used a lot of the lessons that Kubrick taught us about how to do a psychological thriller, a supernatural thriller, in a way that is more about suffocating atmosphere and tension than it ever is about the kind of traditional scares as we understand them today,” Flanagan concluded. “So in light of that, we have been very careful not to make the kind of movie that those audiences would expect.”"
I just realized I've been seeing "Based on Stephen King's......" in movie trailers since I was a child. And I'mnow :damndamndamn:
I can relate
here's the Q&A from Flanagan-
Given the differences between Stephen King’s classic novel and Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, an adaptation of King’s “Doctor Sleep” would presumably have to make a choice: follow the books, or follow the film. Right?
Not necessarily.
“It’s the most common question we’ve had since the project was announced, and the question that we couldn’t really answer until we had material to present,” Mike Flanagan said. “Because the answer is really complicated. The answer to all of those questions for us has always been, ‘yes’.”
“It is an adaptation of the novel ‘Doctor Sleep’, which is Stephen King’s sequel to his novel ‘The Shining’. But this also exists very much in the same cinematic universe that Kubrick established in his adaptation of The Shining,” Flanagan continued, “and reconciling those three, at times very different sources has been kind of the most challenging and thrilling part of this creatively, for us.”
“First and foremost the movie is kind of its own thing,” Trevor Macy added. “And has been embraced by the Kubrick estate and by King as such. But in a very real sense we’re standing on the shoulders of literary and cinematic giants.”
“Which has been, you know, no pressure,” Flanagan joked....
[Interview] Eight New Things We’ve Learned About ‘Doctor Sleep’!
