Warner Bros. is moving forward on its long-gestating Overlook Hotel, a prequel to The Shining predicated on the notion that hotels have lots of rooms—and haunted hotels have lots of haunted rooms, each of which can be explored across an untold number of sequels. But first up is a film directly adapted from Stephen King’s excised prologue to his 1977 novel, “Before The Play,” which told the story of the hotel’s founder, an early-20th-century robber baron named Bob T. Watson, who set out to build a grand resort where visitors could brutally murder each other in the lap of luxury. A script was commissioned last year from former Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara, and now Variety reports that Mark Romanek is in talks to be the Overlook’s new caretaker, with all the job pressures and potential for ending up locked in a pantry talking to yourself that implies.