At this point there's nothing that anyone can do to
The Shining on screen that
Stephen King hasn't already done himself. (See the TV series adaptation of his novel, scripted by King, which leaves out few of the novel's details, and misses most of
Stanley Kubrick's chilling effect.)
So the idea of a prequel is just one of those shrugs, an idea that seems terrible at first, but which experience suggests will very likely ...