While it should be noted that Shining director Stanley Kubrick is kinda crazy and hard to work with, to the point he drove the actor for Wendy insane, Steven King had slandered him as sexist by calling Kubrick depiction of Wendy "misogynistic".
This, along with the other bashing of the 80's film by King is likely why Stanley Kubrick forced him to sign an NDA to make him shutup in exchange for the movie rights needed for the late 90's miniseries. Steven King would later gloat about the NDA expiring with Stanley Kubrick's death.
Steven King would later attract controversy for defending the Regressive Left and bashing Trump.
Funny coming from someone who writes sex scenes with kids and a kid orgy in IT
Children don't count, his Hollyweird artist elite buddies rape them on the regular and after that IT thing, I'm not sure King isn't an active participant. Grownass women whose complaints earn you attention and money now? That does. What will small children do? Fucking sue them? Go public like Corey Feldman did so they can publicly ridicule them?
King needs to go back to doing drugs and being a sicko. That fried brain of his is not good for anything else.
Some people will say "portraying something in fiction doesn't mean you support it". Which is true, but in this case it was absolutely unnecessary, portrayed as a positive thing and the absolute same message could have been sent by a million other things that don't involve a bunch of little boys running a train on a little girl.
He wanted to include that specific thing.
I always assumed it was some fantasy he had from high school.
(but he was probably a creepy weirdo that girls wouldn't go anywhere near)
Never heard of it, and I can see why.
He must be possessed by the same demon that goes around shooting up schools.