The Shining

Yeah.

The film's premise, credits, and release details are documented on Stephen King's official film page as well, so... uh pre-production a little bit of pre-production uh we could talk about i guess um by the early 1990s stephen king was already one of the biggest names in horror entertainment he had carrie the shining christine cujo firestarter children of the corn pet cemetery misery just to name a few quite a bit more than that if you were a horror fan of the 80s and 90s it seemed like there was always another stephen king movie arriving at the theater or the video store and then lately after that tv

yeah yeah i mean

tv version of it in the stand and uh tommy knockers and yeah something

So in a strange way, he was practically rehearsing for Sleepwalkers, right? Stephen King supported the choice of Mick Garris as director, and this would turn out to be the beginning of a pretty significant professional relationship.

Garris later directed the 94 adaptation of The Stand.

The 97 television version of The Shining.

That's the other one I was thinking of.

One and done.

But James Van Sickle, as adult Jackson, he was in Love and Teleportation and the Shining TV series, like the miniseries or whatever they had.

And John Nance as Professor Malloy.

And he's in lots of TV movies you've never, ever heard of.

Welcome back to our Shining miniseries.

This week tackling the miniseries, The Shining.

Before we get into the long, long, long stay at The Overlook, Bailey, what have you been watching lately?

Well, I'm keeping it King now because it is October 8th and it premiered October 7th.

Yeah

... start spooky season.

Less so The Shining miniseries.

Big elephant in the room coming out of the Kubrick movie is that King fucking hated it.

And, you know, there's always a, I guess, a debate between is the book better or is the movie better? And for this, given that it's supposed to be a TV film, you know, there are so many bad Stephen King TV adaptations.

[laughs] Rose Red, The Shining from 1997.

Just so many bad ones.

But that particular 2002 movie, I think it's very underrated.

You're not going to be able to do it.

But like, that's the reason that the Shining miniseries that Stephen King made wasn't as good.

Right.

You know, and like he's he's done other adaptations of his own stuff.

Um, as well as Psycho IV and a bunch of TV stuff.

He directed some episodes of Freddy's Nightmares, um, The Shining miniseries.

I'm sure we talked about all of this in the Sleepwalkers episode.

Also, do I see Tales from the Crypt on there too?

So they arrive on the ship, and of course, they find pretty much nothing.

It's like they, is it abandoned? What's, what's going on? And much like the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining, everybody starts getting these uneasy feelings and, and these visions, and everything just kinda seems off.

And-

Hearing things too, yeah.

All right.

I'm gonna go with, um, I imagine you've heard of this one.

It's called The Shining.

Oh, yes.