translated from Spanish: Surviving the Overlook THE DEBATE

It was during the 2009 prom tour of The Dome that Stephen King spoke of his beginning of working on a sequel to The Resplandor.Se called Doctor Dream, he said, and he would discuss Danny Torrance in his forties. If we go over his bibliography we will see that outside of the Roland Deschain saga and that work he co-wrote with Peter Straub, King did not have a sequel in form. What I had were stretches of themes and also characters that appeared or were mentioned in another novel or story, nothing more. It’s no secret that King hates stanley Kubrick’s film version and that he knows that many only know the history of the Overlook Hotel by “that movie,” and that bothers him. For years he has said that this adaptation should be considered “unofficial”, that the official adaptation is the miniseries he wrote and that the ABC network presented in three parts in 1997, directed by Mick Garris. So it became obvious that of all his works, it was precisely The Shining that would have a sequel. The novel appeared in 2013 and had good reviews and good sales. Since its publication, there has been talk of a film adaptation. Specialized media outlets reported that Warner had purchased the rights in 2014. Two years later Akiva Goldsman was announced as the producer and screenwriter. It was even rumoured that while Goldsman was doing his drafts, a prequel called The Overlook Hotel was being planned. But it was until the first part of That premiered, in 2017, that Warner gave the green light to the adaptation. Goldsman’s work was scrapped, giving him a credence as an executive producer. They hired Mike Flanagan, who had already adapted King for Netflix with Gerald’s Game, and this is where it gets interesting. Flanagan is no stranger to the themes that Doctor Dream plays. Many of his previous films have to do with traumas that characters have been dragging for years, perhaps since childhood, and that they will end up defining them in their maturity. However, his idea was not to make his Doctor Dream a direct sequel to the King-approved miniseries, or the novel, but from Kubrick’s film. to respect kubrick’s changes and start with the sequel. This is how we have Doctor Sueño, a long (true) but interesting film because he manages to close many of the questions that remained in the air of the original tape, faithfully adapts to King and is also a film with the Flanagan brand everywhere. With no intention of ruining the experience, which it is, I’ll just say that this movie has already entered my favorites of the year. And I know it’s not the only adaptation to a King’s play we have this year, but it will surely be the one we’ll remember in the years to come.



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