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ideal year for a Shining sequel?

posted 4 years ago by bozo_500 (12219)
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Its safe to say no one aside horror/Shining connoisseurs bothered to go see it at the cinema.. which will have been a big shock to the studio after the huge success of IT and The Shinings legendary classic status

Obviously Dr Sleep novel didn't come out until 2013 so really the movie couldn't have been made much sooner than it did (the director having to adapt the novel and make it a sequel to the Kubrick movie and incorporate stuff from the original novel, then it probably sat on a shelf until the unprecedented success of IT fast tracked it to being made)..

but say King had written it way earlier ..then maybe the ideal year for a Shining sequel to.. 'shine'.. would've been the late 90s - mid 00s when The Shining was still relatively fresh in filmgoers minds/still in the zeitgeist, making of books, posters adorning student digs etc also back then film goers weren't completely obsessed with superheroes (by 2019 it was similar to the Blade Runner sequel, it came out about 20years too late)

could've still had Ewan..and a 60s Nicholson probably would've agreed to be in it as an older Torrance (and been a major selling point of the movie)

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

What if....

I don't know bozo, personally my expectations were so low after so many unnecessary delayed sequels (or remakes or reboots) of other films that it was a treat to find one that was so well made. For me it's never too late for a solid continuation of a classic story, regardless of how well it does at the box office. It's an antidote to the superhero movies you mentioned and that's why I think it came out at exactly the right time. We need more like this.