Is Jack Nicholson In Doctor Sleep, The New Sequel To The Shining?

Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's Shining sequel meets an all grown-up Danny Torrance. How many murders has Liverpool had in 2019 after the closing of the Overlook Hotel, an grownup Danny (Ewan McGregor) has inherited his father's alcoholism to suppress his Shining” and deal with the trauma he incurred. Doctor Sleep follows Danny's son years after occasions of The Shining. Total, Physician sleep is setting up to be a completely different film than The Shining and it will likely be better to go into the theatre having read the books moderately than having just watched Kubrick's movie.
That's no small feat, contemplating King's opinion about Kubrick's film, and in a Q&A in West Hollywood yesterday afternoon, Flanagan and his producer Trevor Macy talked about striking that steadiness, recreating a few of Kubrick's iconic visuals, and far more.
His enduring resentment offered Mike Flanagan, the writer-director of Physician Sleep, with a dilemma. They get this from murdering youngsters who've the Shining, and when the notably steamful Abra Stone finds herself of their path, she begins contacting Dan through astral projection.
But this also exists very a lot in the identical cinematic universe that Kubrick established in his adaptation of The Shining, and reconciling those three at occasions very completely different sources has been the most difficult and thrilling a part of this, creatively, for us.
We'll get to expertise Doctor Sleep soon sufficient because the movie hits theaters on November 8th, however early screenings are taking place on October 30th in theaters across the nation, if you want to get within the spooky temper before Halloween.