You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garris, where the most influential voices in horror cinema will spill their guts, literally.

To the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now, here's your host, Mick Garris.

I'm Mick Garris, and from Nice Guy Productions, World Headquarters

overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley, this is post-mortem. Stephen King is his own genre,

and he is ubiquitous. If there is a network or studio without a King adaptation in the works,

well, there must be something wrong with them.

Currently, an upcoming, we have two it's, a couple of pet cemeteries, a remake of the stand,

the outsider creep show, Castle Rock, the Long Walk, Mr. Mercedes, in the tall grass, and Dr.

Sleep. It's a world I've spent a lot of my life in personally and professionally, and there is

good reason for this renaissance in King's work. He is one of the best storytellers America has ever

known. But today, we're here to discuss just a small slice of King's creative world. The land where

the Overlook Hotel rises above all else, and well-meaning

family man and would-be author Jack Torrance descends into a maelstrom of madness. The Shining.

The book came out in 1978 and was followed in 1980 by Stanley Kubrick's adaptation. King,

famously not happy with the film, got the opportunity to Hugh closer to his work

when he wrote and produced a six-hour miniseries that I directed in 1997.

In 2013, King returned to the overlook in his sequel novel, Dr. Sleep, which tells us about an adult Danny Torrance after a life

that was curdled by his childhood experiences. And now, in 2019, Mike Flanagan has written and

directed the movie version, which manages to deftly straddle the worlds of King and Kubrick.

It's not Flanagan's first trip to the King well. He also adapted

Gerald's game, a book many thought was unfilmable and made it into a hugely successful Netflix

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