The Shining
Director Mike Flanagan saysDoctor Sleepreuses three shots from Stanley Kubrick ’s film version ofThe Shining . adapt from the Stephen King novel , Doctor Sleepis a subsequence that aim station almost forty years after the event ofThe shine . Its story follows a now - grownup Danny Torrance ( play by Ewan McGregor ) as he uses his shine ability to aid a untried missy being targeted by a homicidal furor .
Doctor Sleepstrays from its source material in the sense that it exists in the same cinematic universe as Kubrick ’s movie , pull in ita sequel to bothThe Shiningbook and motion picture . Of course , there are somebig divergence between the dyad , one of them being The Overlook is still stand at the end of Kubrick ’s movie ( whereas , in King ’s novel , it burn down after its boiler overheats ) . As a result , the haunted hotel do an appearance at a sure full stop during theDoctor Sleepmovie .
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During our interview with Flangan , the writer - manager reveal that three shots fromThe Shiningwere recycle and tweaked forDoctor Sleep . However , the notorious stroke of blood pour out of an elevator at the Overlook is not one of them , despite its appearance intheDoctor Sleepteaser trailer . As Flanagan explained , the teaser was released before he ’d finished his own variant of that shot , so the marketing used Kubrick ’s original instead . Nevertheless , there are three other ones that made the cut .
It ’s the shot of the island in the canon , and the two shots after the car going up the canyon road . We made it nighttime , we added C. P. Snow , and we changed the motorcar . Those three shots are Kubrick ’s shots , but that ’s it .
Because the film includes flashback to Danny ’s experiences at the Overlook as a child , Flanagan ended uprecreating a handful of visuals from Kubrick’sShiningforDoctor Sleep . The most notable of those may be the scene where young Danny ( Roger Dale Floyd in Flanagan ’s picture ) is pedaling his trike around the empty hallways of the Overlook , only to stop at the infamous way 237 when he senses the malevolent bearing inside ( the decompose woman in the bathtub ) . InDoctor Sleep , Flanagan and his output go out of their way to reproduce this sequence as faithfully as possible , from the cinematography to the hotel ’s worldwide esthetic .
While it might ’ve been easy for Flanagan to have simply reprocess footage from Kubrick ’s film in these scenes , the fact that he did n’t is a will to his ambition and desire todo more than merely play on nostalgia forThe Shiningmovie withDoctor Sleep . The three shots that he did recycle are short , but would ’ve been particularly tricky to reliably animate in the subsequence ( they were capture using a whirlybird , after all ) . That ’s to say , it clear horse sense that he simply refashioned them instead . Plus , if anything , their cellular inclusion only further strengthens the larger plot and thematic connections betweenDoctor Sleepand Kubrick ’s movie .
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