How 'Doctor Sleep' earned Stephen King's endorsement and still honored Stanley Kubrick

Director Mike Flanagan is no stranger to adapting Stephen King's more difficult works. After all, his adaptation of "Gerald's Game," a story long considered to be unfilmable, was positively received in 2017.

But adapting King's 2013 story "Doctor Sleep" in a way that did justice to both the author's 1977 novel "The Shining" and Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 film adaptation - which drastically changed some key story points - was an entirely different beast.

"It was painfully clear to me that I am not Stanley Kubrick and never will be," said Flanagan ahead of the film's Friday wide release. "What made me able to sleep at night was, instead of thinking of it as a sequel, what if this was a descendant of the movie? What if it had the DNA of its parents but still has to stand on