“Stephen King’s book is better!” This great director does not like Kubrick’s film

Ridley Scott is known for being a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick, his work, and what this great director brought to The 7th Art. However, this is not blind admiration either. For The Shining, regularly elevated to the horror film pantheon, Scott prefers Stephen King’s novel. Even if Scott didn’t hesitate to take pictures from his film to include in Blade Runner.

In an interview given to the site by River Deadline While promoting his film Napoleon, Scott discusses Kubrick’s film, explaining that he doesn’t like the film’s portrayal of the Overlook Hotel, the haunted place where all the supernatural mayhem takes place. Scott believes The Shining to be King’s best novel because he manages to wring the fear out of an inherently dangerous work – an element he feels Kubrick’s film fails to capture.

“King’s book had a much darker, darker hotel. The boiler room is a monster in the book. All boiler rooms are scary. Stanley deliberately chose a very bright, very modern decor. And I thought: Why? Everything happened immediately. “It works for me. It was an uphill battle that was a very scary book.”

Moreover, we’ll also recall that the author of the novel hated Kubrick’s version, to the point where he blessed a three-episode mini-series that aired on ABC in 1997. When he came to France in 2013 to speak on the sequel to the novel “Doctor Sleep” – “Lights”, he had news: “Kubrick’s vision is cold, mine is hot!”

In 2016, he will review Kubrick’s film in the interview : “I think The Shining is a great movie, and like I said before, it’s like a nice Cadillac without an engine. In that sense, when it came out, a lot of the reviews weren’t very favorable, and I was one of those critics. I kept my mouth shut at that point and the truth To say the least, I didn’t care much about it.”