Director Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House) has taken to Facebook to announced that Doctor Sleep – the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining – has now wrapped production ahead of its release in a little over a year from now.
So that’s a wrap on Doctor Sleep! It’s been a long, crazy, truly unique experience,” writes Flanagan. “I read the novel as soon as it came out back in 2013, fascinated and moved by the epic story of Dan Torrance and Abra Stone, but I never imagined for a moment that I’d be the person to bring it to the big screen. It’s been an honor to spend the last five months with this fantastic cast and crew, and to be trusted with Stephen King’s extraordinary story. One of the highlights of my career, without a doubt. Shine on, everyone. Shine on.”
Doctor Sleep follows a now-adult Danny Torrance, played by Ewan McGregor, who is now working a hospice using his psychic abilities to provide comfort to dying patients as he looks to put the Overlook Hotel behind him. However, he soon finds himself pitted against the True Knot, a psychic cult which feeds on the “steam” created by children possessing the shining.
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Doctor Sleep is set for release on January 24th 2020, and features a cast that includes Ewan McGregor (Christopher Robin), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes), Carl Lumbly (Supergirl), Zahn McClarnon (Westworld), Bruce Greenwood (Gerald’s Game), Emily Alyn Lind (Revenge), Kyleigh Curran (I Can I Will I Did) and Jacob Tremblay (The Predator).
