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“Last night at Toronto’s packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a 15-minute reading from the author’s new novel, Under the Dome, and nearly an hour’s worth of typically funny anecdotes and keen observations during an on-stage interview with director David Cronenberg. Then King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began working on last summer. Seems King was wondering whatever happened to Danny Torrance of The Shining, who when readers last saw him was recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who dies in the Kubrick film version). King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, the Overlook was bound to have left young Danny with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars. What Danny made of those traumatic experiences, and with the psychic powers that saved him from his father at the Overlook, is a question that King believes might make a damn fine sequel.” - Torontoist

What do you think about this?

I read this was an untrue rumor and wasn't going to happen.

I wondered about that.

Fascinating. I'd check it out, since it would actually be written by King, and not one of these other-author, sub-quality sequels to long finished books that have been emerging more and more. *cough* Hitchhiker's *cough*

Is the book as good as the film?

globalvision wrote:Is the book as good as the film?

IMHO the book is better than the film. Even though the film is very good as well.

I wish this rumor was true. I would love to see a sequel to this book, just to see what has happened to the main character since "The Shining"

Gannon wrote:I wish this rumor was true. I would love to see a sequel to this book, just to see what has happened to the main character since "The Shining"

I don't know, I think he's serious about this one. I took a quick peek about it on King's website, he's got a poll up about it and has named Doctor Sleep as a tentative title. I kind of hate the title, personally, but we may indeed see something as early as next year. You know how authors get once they get a story idea...

I was thinking the title "Dr. Sleep" sounded a little creepy, but that could be ok, since it is Stephen King and maybe he has a good reason for it. Who knows until he actually writes it. I hope he does.

I would like to see where he takes Danny from where we left him these many years later. I hope that he includes Halloran in the new story. I really liked the interplay between Danny and Halloran. The book was so much better than the movie, although the movie had a nice ambience, very Kubrick with the bright lights and sometimes silent scenes.

The Mythwriter wrote:

Gannon wrote:I wish this rumor was true. I would love to see a sequel to this book, just to see what has happened to the main character since "The Shining"

I don't know, I think he's serious about this one. I took a quick peek about it on King's website, he's got a poll up about it and has named Doctor Sleep as a tentative title. I kind of hate the title, personally, but we may indeed see something as early as next year. You know how authors get once they get a story idea...

Fingers crossed.

I think Danny was about five in the book, and that came out in 1977. If King's setting his new book in the present, Danny would be pushing forty by now

Time flies

The Shining is a great book. I have faith in King...if he writes a sequel I'm betting it'll be a worthy one.

I hope it's true. Danny is an interesting character.
What has he been up to over the last thirty years or so?

Does the book have a different ending than the movie?

surgeryhouston wrote:Does the book have a different ending than the movie?

Mostly.

I can't help feel this sequel would end up as an average book like Black House which also dealt with a grown up character who was a child in the first book.

I hope this isnt true. The Shining is one of my favorite novels ever and although the film was vastly different to how King intended it to be, it is still a great movie and it doesnt need a sequel. Taking a grown up Danny out of the confines of the Overlook Hotel is a bad idea because it would just refer to the famous hotel in flashback form (im assuming) and that would be a weak analogy for a story. Best to let classic dogs lie.

King made a decent stab at remaking the film in 1997 the way he intended but it came off bad because of terrible casting for the part of Danny, shame.