The Shining prequel

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The Shining prequel

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ng-a-shining-prequel-20120727,0,4353298.story

Warner Bros. is quietly exploring the possibility of a prequel to “The Shining,” the 1980 Stanley Kubrick chillfest that many fans regard as the scariest movie of all time. The studio has solicited the involvement of Hollywood writer-producer Laeta Kalogridis and her partners Bradley Fischer and James Vanderbilt to craft a new take as producers, according to a person familiar with the project who was not authorized to talk about it publicly.

The film would focus on what happened before Jack Torrance (of course played memorably onscreen by Jack Nicholson), his wife and their psychic son arrived at the haunted retreat where Torrance soon descends into violent madness. A WB spokeswoman cautioned that any "Shining" prequel was in a very early stage and not even formally in development.
 

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The Shining prequel

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ng-a-shining-prequel-20120727,0,4353298.story

Warner Bros. is quietly exploring the possibility of a prequel to “The Shining,” the 1980 Stanley Kubrick chillfest that many fans regard as the scariest movie of all time. The studio has solicited the involvement of Hollywood writer-producer Laeta Kalogridis and her partners Bradley Fischer and James Vanderbilt to craft a new take as producers, according to a person familiar with the project who was not authorized to talk about it publicly.

The film would focus on what happened before Jack Torrance (of course played memorably onscreen by Jack Nicholson), his wife and their psychic son arrived at the haunted retreat where Torrance soon descends into violent madness. A WB spokeswoman cautioned that any "Shining" prequel was in a very early stage and not even formally in development.

Let's keep it that way.
 

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What he hell is this story going to be? The horror of him beating his wife and kid before they got to the hotel, because that's what it was in the book... Or it's probably the story of the first guy who butchered his family. In other words, the same movie just in a different period.
 

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What he hell is this story going to be? The horror of him beating his wife and kid before they got to the hotel, because that's what it was in the book... Or it's probably the story of the first guy who butchered his family. In other words, the same movie just in a different period.

Yeah, that's what I figured. Gotta be about the reason the hotel was "haunted" in the first place.

I liked the original, not a huge fan, but this is just a bad idea.
 

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Sounds like they want to go all "American Horror Story" - which they could do without trying to leech off a classic............
 

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This sounds completely pointless. Maybe....maybe i'd be on board for a prequel that goes way back in time concerning the Hotel itself. Maybe,but probably not.
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