Bruce Greenwood Has Been Cast in THE SHINING Sequel DOCTOR SLEEP

Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek, Gerald’s Game) is the latest actor to join the cast of Warner Bros.’ film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep. According to Deadline, he will be taking on the role of a character named Dr. John.

There are not details on who this character is, but in the book there is a character named John Dalton who is the family doctor of Abra Stone and her family. That could be the part, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Greenwood joins the previously cast Ewan McGregor as the grown up Danny Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson as Rose The Hat, Carl Lumbly, Alex Essoe, Zahn McClarnon, and Kyliegh Curran landed the role of Abra Stone, the granddaughter of Jack Torrance, who also has the gift of ‘The Shining’.

The movie is being directed by Mike Flanagan who previously adapted King's Gerald's Game for Netflix. I’m excited to see what he’s going to end up doing with this film, but it gret to see that Greenwood has joined the cast. He’s a great actor!

Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining which centers on Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their son Danny as they live in the haunted Overlook Hotel during the winter season to take care of it. It's there that the hotel possesses Jack and he slowly becomes possessed by the hotel and nightmarishly torments his wife and son.

Doctor Sleep takes place several years after the events that took place at the Overlook Hotel. It focuses on Jack's son Danny who is now a middle-aged man. He is still traumatized by what happened at the hotel all those years ago, and he throughout his life has had to deal with anger management and alcoholism issues. However, in an effort to get his life back together, he gives up drinking and settles down in a small town in New Hampshire. It is at this point in his life where his psychic abilities start to resurface and he develops a psychic link with a 12-year-old girl named Abra Stone. Turns out this girl's life is being threatened by a tribe of paranormals who suck the energy from people. They are led by a man named Rose the Hat and Danny has to save her from them.

Doctor Sleep is set to hit theatres in January of 2020.