Former The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara will be giving into the ghosts for his possible upcoming project The Overlook Hotel, which will be a prequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Originally adapted from the popular horror novel by Stephen King (much to the author's dismay, it should be noted), Kubrick's singular vision of horror greatly revised the world of the novel in its transition to the big screen.
"While King wasn't crazy about the Kubrick movie, there are so many iconic images in that movie, and an outsized performance by Jack Nicholson, that this will be a tough act to follow," Deadline says of the likely Mazzara-penned The Shining prequel.
The Overlook Hotel is currently being developed at Warner Bros., with production via Mythology Entertainment's Bradley Fischer (Black Swan), James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) and Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar).
Mazzara ran AMC's excruciatingly popular The Walking Dead after taking over from show creator Frank Darabont and only just stepped down in December after notorious disputes with The Walking Dead comics creator Robert Kirkman..
King is meanwhile revisiting The Shining in his own way via his forthcoming Doctor Sleep, which gives us a middle-aged Danny Torrance (child protagonist of the first The Shining) who is working to save a "very special" 12-year-old girl.
For those interested in even more The Shining fun, feature documentary Room 237 is still playing in theaters and details various truly oddball conspiracies surrounding the Kubrick film (we're talking everything from the film being a public admission that Kubrick faked the Apollo Moon landing to the film's darker context concerning the American Indian and Jewish holocausts).
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