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In crafting this narrative balancing act, director Mike Flanagan had to get permission from both Kubrick's estate and King himself. He even confessed that "Threading that needle has been the source of every ulcer we've had for the last two years." Fans of the book, though, are wondering how this approach will affect the ending. In the book -- SPOILERS INCOMING, SERIOUSLY -- Danny returns to the site where the Overlook formerly stood and pals around with the ghost of his dad, Jack Torrance.

But in the Kubrick film, the Overlook didn't burn down. After presumably being visited by hordes of lame Discovery Channel ghost-hunting shows in the intervening years, it seems as though Danny will get to poke around the abandoned hotel. But what about his dad? Jack Nicholson is too old to even make movies about how hilariously old he is, so don't expect him to show up. Will we get some kind of Rogue One-esque CGI abomination? More likely, the filmmakers simply recast the part. As IndieWire points out, actor Henry Thomas has said that he'll be playing an unnamed "very bad dude" in the film, despite the fact that his name isn't listed in the IMDb credits. Meaning that the guy who was once the adorable Elliott in E.T. might secretly be playing cinema's greatest axe-wielding psycho.

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