Novelist Stephen King has packed on the praise for Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep, claiming the movie "redeems" what he didn't like about Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of The Shining.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, King, who is known to dislike the Kubrick film, explained how the recent big-screen adaptation of his sequel novel helped to alleviate some of the issues that he originally had with its predecessor.
"I read the script to this one very, very carefully," the writer revealed. "Because obviously I wanted to do a good job with the sequel, because people knew that book The Shining, and I thought, I don't want to screw this up.
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In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, King, who is known to dislike the Kubrick film, explained how the recent big-screen adaptation of his sequel novel helped to alleviate some of the issues that he originally had with its predecessor.
"I read the script to this one very, very carefully," the writer revealed. "Because obviously I wanted to do a good job with the sequel, because people knew that book The Shining, and I thought, I don't want to screw this up.
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