The Shining
Warner Bros. has released the first poke and bill for director Mike Flanagan’sDoctor Sleepadaptation . free-base on Stephen King ’s sequel novel toThe Shining(which he release in 2013),Doctor Sleeppicks up with Danny Torrance as an older man who ’s still psychologically marred by what happened to him as a child . Ewan McGregor stars in the celluloid versionas the grownup Danny , who decides to try and get sober - having spent many years wassail so as to bottle up his shining powers - and starts a job at a hospice where he expend his abilities to provide comfort to dying patient role ( earning him the eponymous nickname ) .
The film marks Flanagan ’s second fourth dimension adjust King ’s lit , following his efforts on Netflix ’s acclaimed big sieve version ofGerald ’s Gamein 2017 . As for McGregor , he ’s joined by a cast here that includesGerald ’s Gamecostar Bruce Greenwood , in gain to Rebecca Ferguson as the leader of a sinister cult ( recognise as the True Knot ) that William Holman Hunt and feed upon youngster with psychical powers like Danny ’s . And whileDoctor Sleep ’s November sack date is still a agency off , WB is getting its marketing up and hunt down today , if only so its trailer can screen with the many gravid horror moving-picture show coming out in the next few week .
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It was actually Flanagan who took toTwitterto unveil theDoctor Sleepteaser poster this morning , and sustain that the preview would be drop soon after . The preview in now online , as you could see in the place below ( followed by the one - plane ) .
As one might wait , theDoctor Sleepteaser focuses hard on connecting Flanagan ’s movie toThe Shining- specifically , director Stanley Kubrick ’s iconic adaptation of King ’s horror novel . At the same time , it introduces the members of the True Knot and offer a little taste of the sequel ’s actual storyline . Also featured here is newcomer Kyliegh Curran as Abra , a young girl with clamber abilities who reaches out to Danny when she find herself being hunted by the vicious Rose the Hat ( Ferguson ) and her following . However , to avail her , Danny is drive to reawaken the ( genuine ) ghosts of his past times and revisit the awful outcome that transpire at the Overlook Hotel , some forty years earlier .
Flanagan has indicated thatDoctor Sleepis as muchaShiningmovie sequel as an version of King ’s source material , and the annoyer drives that point home by either revisiting or recreating some of the more infamous moments from Kubrick ’s film . It ’s probably the good approach , though , as many people are in all probability more familiar with Kubrick ’s version than King ’s book ( which are different in some major ways ) . At the same time , Flanagan does n’t appear to have roam too far from theDoctor Sleepnovel , as far as its worldwide game points go . That ’s supporting to see , deal the book handle with a lot of theme ( trauma , habituation , grief ) that are firm in the director ’s wheelhouse , as evidenced by his previous work on films likeGerald ’s GameandOculus , as well asThe Haunting of Hill HouseTV series .
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