Then Black, our onscreen narrator, takes us on the 60-year journey of his mother Anne.
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He spoke not about the movies, but about being gay, about the impact of the life of queer icon Harvey Milk, and he issued a promise that in the near future the full rights of homosexuals would be recognized by the federal government. Laurent Bouzereau’s film begins with Black’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Academy Awards.
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No kidding folks, at least three times I had to stop the movie because it had put me into emotional overdrive. Indeed, one could easily see Black’s family chronicle becoming yet another knockout miniseries. “Doctor Sleep” arrives in theaters on November 8.Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for “Milk,” was crucial to the HBO hit “Big Love,” and most recently created the HULU miniseries “Under the Banner of Heaven,”about a murder in Mormon country.īut his personal saga, as chronicled in the documentary “Mama’s Boy,” is even more flabbergasting. READ MORE: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Director Explains How ‘Shining’ Sequel Is True To Stanley Kubrick’s Film While Also Approved By Stephen King Because he managed to take my novel of ‘Doctor Sleep,’ the sequel, and somehow weld it seamlessly to the Kubrick version of ‘The Shining,’ the movie. “All I can say is, Mike took my material, he created a terrific story, people who have seen this movie flip for it, and I flipped for it, too. “I don’t want to get into a big argument about how great the ‘Shining’ film is that Kubrick did or my feelings about it,” explained King. He is just happy that “Doctor Sleep” not only faithfully adapts his novel but also found a way to integrate with Kubrick’s film.
READ MORE: ‘Doctor Sleep’ To Run Longer Than ‘The Shining’ At 152 Minutes As The Director Warns Audiences To Avoid The Big SodaĪfter years of voicing his opinion on the film version of “The Shining,” the author isn’t keen on bringing up those old feelings once again.
He added, “Mike Flanagan, I’ve enjoyed all his movies, and I’ve worked with him before on ‘Gerald’s Game.’ So, I read the script very, very carefully and I said to myself, ‘Everything that I ever disliked about the Kubrick version of “The Shining” is redeemed for me here.’” “Because obviously I wanted to do a good job with the sequel because people knew the book ‘The Shining,’ and I thought, I don’t want to screw this up.” “I read the script to this one very, very carefully,” King said. This meant that King would have to reconcile his feelings about Kubrick’s “The Shining” while working on “Doctor Sleep.” And apparently, that’s exactly what happened. READ MORE: ‘Doctor Sleep’: Mike Flanagan Attempts To Honor Both Kubrick & King In This Mediocre Blockbuster As mentioned, the story is based on the novel by King, but director Mike Flanagan clearly also wanted to honor Kubrick’s film by including recreations of famous moments from the original.
However, in a new interview with EW, the author explained that working on the sequel “ Doctor Sleep,” based simultaneously on his own sequel novel and Kubrick’s film, has given him a new outlook on the 1980 classic.įor those that don’t know, “Doctor Sleep” tells the story of a grown-up Danny Torrance, who finds himself brought back to the world of mental powers and creepy hotels when he comes across a young girl that is being hunted due to her Shining ability. Stephen King isn’t fond of Stanley Kubrick’s classic adaptation of his novel, “ The Shining.” After decades of the filmmaker being criticized by the author, we all know this to be a fact.
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