Doctor Sleep Teaser Trailer #1 (2019)
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul...
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Ewan McGregor, Jacob Tremblay
Directed By: Mike Flanagan
US Release Date: November 8, 2019.
Doctor Sleep is an upcoming 2019 American horror film based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Stephen King, which is a sequel to King's 1977 novel The Shining. The film combines elements of the 1977 novel and its 1980 film adaptation of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick. Written and directed by Mike Flanagan, it stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, a man with psychic powers who struggles with alcoholism. The film also stars Rebecca Ferguson and Kyliegh Curran in her feature film debut. The cast includes Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.[1]
The character Danny Torrance first appeared in King's novel The Shining as a child with psychic powers called "the shining". The child character also appeared in Kubrick's 1980 film. The novel Doctor Sleep and its film adaptation features Dan Torrance as an adult, played by Ewan McGregor. Flanagan said that the film Doctor Sleep is an adaptation of King's novel but that it would also exist "in the same cinematic universe" as Kubrick's The Shining. The director said he made an effort to reconcile the differences between The Shining novel and film.
Warner Bros. Pictures began developing a film adaptation shortly after Doctor Sleep was published. Writer-producer Akiva Goldsman wrote a script, but the studio did not secure a budget for the film until the box office success of its 2017 horror film It, also based on a novel by King. Flanagan was hired to rewrite Goldsman's script and direct the film. Filming began in September 2018 in the state of Georgia, including Atlanta and the surrounding area, and concluded in December 2018.
Warner Bros. plans to release Doctor Sleep in theaters globally on October 30, 2019 and in the United States and Canada on November 8, 2019.