The Shining (Ivo Van Hove)

[theatremiss]

Mar 21, 2022 23:03:37 GMT Being Alive said:

Tbh once you got used to gimmick of Network, it was actually rather enjoyable...but I wanted to slap him halfway through All About Eve 🙃

I actually left All About Eve due to the camera works

[nash16]

Harold Pinter theatre in the New Year for this. Exciting.

[lemiz1862]

Yes The Shining in fall 23, another high profile Van Hove project is this spring.

[alicechallice]

Sept 15, 2022 20:52:43 GMT lemiz1862 said:

Yes The Shining in fall 23, another high profile Van Hove project is this spring.

Any hints on what that might be?

[Rory]

Sept 15, 2022 12:23:50 GMT nash16 said:

Harold Pinter theatre in the New Year for this. Exciting.

Great, have been waiting for this. Do we know roughly when?

[nottobe]

Hope the other project is a play revival rather than a film adaptation. I personally think Hove is better reimaging plays rather than films.

[Dave B]

Is there any update on this? Earlier posters in the know (or perhaps not, who knows?) suggested end of this year in the Pinter. Anything more recent rumbling around?

[callum]

Not convinced Stiller would still be attached - he writes/produces/directs Severance which seems to take up a lot of his time as a successful show, with the time he dedicates required even more so now with the writers strike.

[couldileaveyou]

Today is the 43th anniversary of the movie btw

[Rory]

This is the play I am dying to see!

[keyspi]

Any updates on this at all?

It is killing me how there have been no official follow ups since it was initially teased.

Really hoping for it, but would be very surprised if Ben Stiller is still involved.

[mrbarnaby]

It’s all off sadly

[Rory]

Jun 11, 2023 21:10:35 GMT mrbarnaby said:

It’s all off sadly

This is really disappointing news. I wonder what happened.

[keyspi]

Jun 11, 2023 21:10:35 GMT mrbarnaby said:

It’s all off sadly

What a shame...I knew it sounded too good to be true in the end

[bordeaux]

Good. I'd far rather he spent his time directing the Greeks or some Shakespeare or a big modern classic than another slightly pointless movie adaptation. Or some opera: he's just done Don Giovanni at the Met; when is the ROH going to give him a chance?!

[vernongersh]

awww. too bad this is off was looking forward to it

[Dave B]

This appears to be back on.

The tail end of this piece in today's Guardian with Rufus Wainwright, Sheridan Smith and Ivo van Hove talking about Opening Night says (my emphasis)

That will apply more than ever to his forthcoming adaptation of The Shining, to be staged next year with Ben Stiller as Jack Torrance, the ultimate flawed patriarch immortalised by Jack Nicholson on screen. “Everybody thinks of the Kubrick movie, which for me is a masterpiece,” says Van Hove, before mentioning its author. “But Stephen King hated it. When I reread the book, I could understand why. The first 100 pages are gone. And that’s when you see the father has his issues. It’s why they go to the hotel so he can be alone and write. What I’ve done is go back to the book. It will be a very different thing from Kubrick.”

www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/feb/21/ashamed-sheridan-smith-meltdown-opening-night-olivier-west-end

[keyspi]

Feb 21, 2024 20:55:51 GMT Dave B said:

This appears to be back on.

Amazing news