Spoilers for Doctor Sleep follow below. Throughout Stephen King’s long, illustrious career, there’s been a push and pull between fidelity to the source material and making sweeping changes when it comes to adapting his books and short stories into feature films. The most striking comparison is the 1997 miniseries adaptation of The Shining vs. Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1980 adaptation of the same book. King himself made his displeasure with Kubrick’s more dramatic, less supernatural adaptation known publicly, as the legendary filmmaker disposed with King’s explosive ending and more explicit ghosts in favor of a story …

While Stephen King is one of the most celebrated (and prolific) authors in history, it’s no secret that he has a profound dislike for quite possibly the most famous adaptation of his work: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The author criticized Kubrick’s adaptation at the time of its release—how the filmmaker downplayed the supernatural elements of the book and how he cast Shelley Duvall who was “basically just there to scream and be stupid, and that’s not he woman I wrote about.” King also reportedly had issues with the depiction of Jack Torrance. In the book, …