The Overlook Hotel with Glen Mazzara
Episode 105, Feb 02, 2022, 09:00 AM
The Walking Dead and The Shield screenwriter/showrunner Glen Mazzara makes his triumphant return to The Kingcast stage to go beat by beat through his sadly unproduced Shining prequel script titled The Overlook Hotel. This thing was somewhere between Kubrick's film and There Will Be Blood and delighted in freaking you out.
Mark Romanek was slated to direct, but the plug was pulled and now the only way to hear the full story of what could have been is to listen to Mr. Mazzara detail his twisted vision in full.
Way back in the halcyon year of 2014, Warner Bros attempted a prequel to The Shining and one man rose to the challenge, crafting a truly messed up screenplay called The Overlook Hotel which tells the story of the family that built the dastardly hotel. Things didn't turn out too well for them. They ended up not making the movie, but now...