The Overlook Hotel to Shine On its Own Way
Steve Barton
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Some quick news has come in regarding The Shining prequel, entitled The Overlook Hotel, from director Mark Romanek. Recently Collider sat down with producer James Vanderbilt, who offered an update on the project’s status.
“You want a real filmmaker like Mark doing it,” said Vanderbilt. “Honestly, I think people will really be excited about it because it’s not like ’20 Years Before The Shining!’ I don’t want to give too much away about the story, but the way [screenwriter] Glen [Mazzara] cracked it and the way Mark has sort of cracked it, it’s completely its own film, which I think is super smart. It’s not like, ‘When Scatman Crothers was young, he…’; it’s not that.”
The film tells the origin story of the Overlook Hotel through the eyes of its first owner, Bob T. Watson. A robber baron at the turn of the 20th century, Watson scaled the remote peaks of the Colorado Rockies to build the grandest resort in America and a place he and his family would also call home.
More as it comes.
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