Doctor Sleep is a forthcoming 2020 American paranormal horror feature film written and directed by Mike Flanagan (Ouija: Origin of Evil; Hush; Before I Wake; Oculus). The Warner Bros. and
Vertigo Entertainment movie is an adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 novel of the same name, which was a sequel to his 1977 bestseller The Shining. Akiva Goldsman (The Dark Tower; Rings) worked on an early draft of the Doctor Sleep screenplay.
It has been confirmed that Ewan McGregor will star as protagonist Danny Torrance.
Years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, the now middle-aged Danny Torrance who is still traumatised. He’s followed in his father’s footsteps and has problems with anger management and alcoholism.
However, he soon gives up drinking and settles in a small town in New Hampshire. While there, his psychic abilities start to resurface and he develops a psychic link with a twelve year-old girl named Abra Stone who he must save after he discovers her life is being threatened by a tribe of paranormals led by a man named Rose the Hat…
Director Flanagan previously helmed the successful movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, a novel that had been to be untranslatable for the screen.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has confirmed that the sequel is scheduled for release on January 24, 2020.
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