How did King thing he would top the Kubrick version on a TV budget?

Maybe he is a fucking idiot.

It is possible to make a good tv horror movie but they just did everything wrong and King had a lot of control.

All King wanted was to have an adaptation made that was faithful to the book, especially the idea that Jack is a good man torn apart by alcoholism (and ghosts). In Kubrick’s version Jack is moody and nuts from the start.

I'm so sorry King has this hangup with Kubrick's version, but regardless if the TV movie mini-series was more faithful, it still sucked along with the SALEM'S LOT Reboot with Rob Lowe.. Total ass

That is just it, it is showing what was in the book. I saw the movie a couple times years ago, I thought it was great. Then I got around to reading the book, and holy cow, it is so much better than the Kubrick movie. So I went and bought the miniseries and within the first 20 minutes of that, I was liking it so much better than the movie.

I don't mind the special effects in the miniseries. I am so happy to see on the screen what I had read in the book that I give them a pass, such as the hedge animals. You can really see that the character of Jack starting out as a nice guy who is being haunted by the ghosts of the hotel. In the movie it seems he just starts out like an ass that you don't care if he lives or dies, you aren't rooting for him at all.

Anyway, just my two cents.