Director Mark Romanek is set to begin work on the official prequel to "The Shining," titled "Overlook Hotel." The film will tell a whole new story, separate from the book Stephen King originally wrote back in the 1970s.

According to an interview the new film's producer James Vanderbilt gave to Collider, the prequel is expected to take the same approach that Stanley Kubrick did over three decades ago, when he adapted the King novel for the screen. Although Kubrick used many of the characters and themes from the book, the director translated the story onto the screen with his own vision.

Fans may be disappointed to find out they won't be seeing the younger versions of characters originally played by Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers and Shelley Duvall.

"I don't want to give too much away about the story but the way [screenwriter] Glen [Mazzara] cracked it and the way Mark [Romanek] has sort of cracked it, it's completely its own film, which I think is super smart," Vanderbilt told Collider. "It's not like, 'When Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann) was young, he...' It's not that."

Fans of the original King novel and the Kubrick film know the history of the fictional Overlook Hotel all too well. There are so many different stories associated with the setting, the film could take several different approaches and remain faithful to the universe King created.

The original film featured a story about a previous caretaker who had killed his family, which protagonist Jack Torrance was warned about before he even took the job in the main plotline. So there could be elements of that earlier story present in the prequel film.

But King also mentions in the novel several other stories that supposedly took place at the hotel, all of which could be options for the prequel.

"One of the things that's amazing about [Romanek] is that he's a strong filmmaker with his own convictions, and Mark is gonna make the movie Mark is gonna make," Vanderbilt said.