The Shining Prequel in the Works

It may be the stuff of nightmares for fans of a horror classic, but rumours are circulating that a prequel to The Shining is on the cards.

According to the LA Times, Warner Bros. is considering a return to the Overlook Hotel, with the prequel plot focussing on “what happened before Jack Torrance, his wife and their psychic son arrived at the haunted retreat.”

Shutter Island scribe Laeta Kalogridis has been brought on-board to produce alongside partners Bradley Fischer and James Vanderbilt.

But the Times’ source was at pains to point out that any Shining prequel “was in a very early stage and not even formally in development” and had no word on whether Stephen King - writer of the original novel - would have any involvement.

So would you like to see this particular prequel get the green-light?

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Source : ign[dot]com