On November 19th Canadian director and screenwriter, David Cronenberg, interviewed author Stephen King on stage at Toronto’s Canon Theatre. According to Torontoist, who attended the event, “King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began working on last summer.” It seems King that has been penning a sequel to his 1977 novel ‘The Shining.’ Can a movie be far behind?

Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation of the psychological horror story is often ranked as one of the best horror movies of all time. In it, Jack Torrance is sent to work as a winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel. Once there and isolated with his wife, Wendy, and young son, Danny, Jack falls prey to an evil presence at the inn and goes mad, unsuccessfully attempting to kill his family.

Torontoist says the sequel will focus on a now 40-year-old Danny, who lives and works in upstate New York as an orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill. King spoke about the sequel’s plot, which will build upon the question of what Danny made of the traumatic experiences of his youth combined with his psychic powers (which saved him from his father in the original).

But don’t place any bets. We’ll have to hold our horses to see if King actually follows through. King said that he isn’t “completely committed” to ‘Doctor Sleep,’ the tentative title of the sequel. He said, “Maybe if I keep talking about it I won’t have to write it.”

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