Originally published April 3, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
It looks like Warner Bros. has decided to press ahead with its plans to adapt Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, with The Tracking Board reporting that Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has been set to write the script for the sequel to The Shining.
Doctor Sleep picks up some years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, with a now adult Danny Torrance having picked up his father’s legacy of anger and alcholism. Settling in a small New Hampshire town, his abilities resurface and he forms a link with another psychic, 12-year-old Abra Strone, who he has to protect from a tribe of quasi-immortals know as the True Knot, who feed on “steam” – a psychic essence produced by the pain of those with the shining.
Doctor Sleep isn’t the only upcoming King adaptation with Goldsman attached; he penned an early draft for The Dark Tower, and is also serving as a producer on the 2017 film.
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