Could There Be a Shining Prequel?

Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on July 31, 2012

With the steady stream of remakes over the past decade-plus, horror movie fans should know by now that nothing is sacred. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a seemingly untouchable classic like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is, in fact, touchable. You can breathe a bit easier, though, in knowing that there’s no plan to actually remake the 1980 Stephen King adaptation (at least, not yet). Rather, according to the LA Times, Warner Brothers is exploring the possibility of making a prequel to The Shining, focusing on “what happened before Jack Torrance…his wife and their psychic son arrived at the haunted retreat where Torrance soon descends into violent madness.”

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