Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan was planning to make a spin-off film that would tell us the story of Dick Hallorrann. It would have served as a prequel Stephen King’S The brilliant and it’s a story I would have loved to see Flanagan told, but unfortunately Warner Bros. has decided not to move forward, which is a shame. Now the director is sharing some interesting details about what he was trying to do with it!
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Speaking earlier about his plans for the film, the director said, “The idea was to open up with him like [Doctor Sleep actor] Charles Lumblyand then to find a way to go back into the past and tell this other story that would inevitably be, very much in the way Doctor Sleep inevitably takes us back to a familiar hotel. But I do not know. I don’t know what we would do with it. I love it though, and it was something we were really excited about. So I hope there’s new life out there somewhere.”
Dick Hallorrann was the head chef at the Overlook hotel and befriended Danny Torrance in The Shining. During an interview with Script Apart, Flanagan opened up about the film and revealed that he would have a connection with It.
“I had a big attraction to Dick Hallorann’s film, but I was so excited, that he’s a young man starting in Derry and had a little overlap with IT. Because in the canon, little Richie Halloran has a meeting with Pennywise as a young man.Then it would be a whole other thing where he joins the military and ends up trying to work in law enforcement in New Orleans in a heavily segregated police department and clashes with some kind of cousin of the True Knot.An assassin who specifically targets the people who shine and this great battle there.He would like to win the battle but lose the war and lose the people he cared about and ended up opting for a quieter life away from it all and accept this job prepare meals in this hotel in Colorado.
He goes on to talk about how the story would unfold from how it opens to how it ends with the arrival of the hotel caretakers. Those caretakers would have been Delbert Grady with his wife and twin daughters. Here’s what he said:
“That would have been great. They’re going to start with Carl Lumbly as Dick Halloran cleaning the kitchen and getting ready for winter because the winter caretaker and his family are on their way. They’re saying ‘You must be ready to meet them and give them a tour. ‘ Then he goes up to room 217 and does a weird thing with the bathtub and he remembers all the things in his life. Then at the end of the story we go back to him at the Overlook and they say the keepers are here. He goes downstairs to meet them in the lobby and you think it’s the Torrance family, but it’s not. It’s Delbert Grady and his twin daughters and his wife. And you realize you’re seeing the beginning of that story.
Damnation! It would have been a great movie! I hate that Warner Bros. aired that movie! What a great concept! But because Doctor Sleep didn’t perform well at the box office, all the spinoff films Flanagan was planning were dead. Flanagan said:
“I understood why they couldn’t proceed with those with the box office that we did. It made sense. It was heartbreaking. It made sense. But yeah, it’s all over.”
It still irritates me Doctor Sleep it didn’t do well at the box office because it was such a good movie!
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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