The Shining (Reboot)

The Shiningis an upcoming American horror film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. It stars Christian Bale as Jack Torrance along with Liv Tyler as his wife and Mason Cook as their son. The film is part of the Stephen King Cinematic Universe.

Plot
Jack Torrance is an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic. He takes a job as the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, an isolated resort in the Colorado Rockies. The previous caretaker, Charles Grady, who developed cabin fever and killed his family, then himself. Jack decides to accept the job regardless, so he, his wife Wendy and their son Danny head out to the Overlook Hotel for the winter.

When they arrive, they are greeted by Dick Halloran, the hotel chef, who gives them a tour of the hotel. Halloran is able to communicate with Danny telepathically. He gets Danny alone and explains to him that they share a psychic power referred to as the Shining. Before leaving, Halloran warns Danny to stay out of Room 237.

While exploring the hotel, Danny encounters two twin girls who invite him to come and play with them. Danny at first agrees, but they go into Room 237, so Danny refuses to follow. However, he grows increasingly curious as to what is inside the room. Meanwhile, Jack becomes increasingly frustrated by his writer's block. After a fight with Wendy, he wanders into the hotel's Gold Room and meets a bartender named Lloyd who serves him a drink while Jack complains about the state of his marriage.

Eventually, Danny sees the door to Room 237 open and dares go inside, his curiosity getting the better of him. He is then heard screaming by his parents, who run to the room and find her cowering in the corner with a bruise on his neck. Danny tells them that a mysterious woman was in the room and tried to strangle him. Jack returns to the room to investigate and finds the woman. She seduces him and they are about to make love on the bed until she morphs into a horrid old woman in front of Jack. Her body then continues to decompose until she disappears. Jack keeps the incident quiet.

Wendy tells Jack that she thinks she should take Danny and leave the hotel until Jack can come home at the end of winter. Jack is furious and storms back into the Gold Room, where he finds a party now in progress. In the bathroom, Jack meets the ghost of Charles Grady, who tells him that Jack should take care of his family, the way he did. Meanwhile, Halloran senses something is wrong at the hotel and decides to return to check on the Torrances.

Wendy searches the hotel for Jack and finds his typewriter. She flips through the pages of his manuscript to find that it simply repeats the phrase "All rest and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over. Jack then appears, threatening her until she knocks him out with a baseball bat. Wendy goes to get Danny, but finds that he is gone into a trance. He telepathically reaches out to ask Halloran for help, just as a snowstorm hits. Halloran takes a snowcat and races for the hotel.

Jack wakes up and retrieves a fire escape axe. He chases his wife and son, who hide in the bathroom of their living quarters. Wendy notices that Danny has scrawled "REDRUM" across the door. When she catches the reflection in the mirror, she sees that it spells "MURDER" backwards. At that moment, Jack begins to hack through the door with the axe. Wendy helps Danny out of the window, then shatters the mirror and stabs Jack in the hand with a shard.

Jack hears Halloran's snowcat roaring up to the hotel and leaves the room. Halloran enters the lobby and telepathically searches for Danny. Danny arrives just in time to see Jack kill Halloran by slamming the axe into his chest. Jack then corners Danny as Wendy arrives, but she trips and falls down the stairs, breaking his ankle and forcing her to crawl across the floor. Danny reaches out to his father, who briefly regains his humanity. He tells Danny to run, and allows Wendy to escape while he runs off.

Jack runs through the hotel and ransacks it. He sees the guests of the ball pouring into the halls and swarming around him, but he hacks through them. When he reaches Room 237, he sees Grady and the woman from earlier, as well as the twins emerging, revealing themselves to be his family, and Room 237 to be the room where he murdered them. Jack retreats, and is eventually cornered by the ghosts in the basement. Jack declares that he will destroy the hotel and swings the axe at unstable boiler, causing it to explode and blow the hotel apart. Wendy and Danny, covered in snow, watch in horror as the Overlook burns. In the rubble we see a photograph of the party, with a caption that reads "Overlook Hotel, July 4th Ball, 1977" that shows a smiling Jack in the center of the crowd. The photo then melts away.