Great New Featurette For DOCTOR SLEEP Shows Off New Footage of The Overlook Hotel
We’ve got a new featurette for you to watch for the upcoming film Doctor Sleep, which is the long-awaited sequel to The Shining. In it, Stephen King and director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) meet for the first time and talk about the movie and what they were trying to accomplish with it. It also offers up some cool new footage, most of which is from the Overlook Hotel, which they rebuilt for the sequel.
The film continues the story of Danny Torrance 40 years after his nightmarish ordeal at the Overlook Hotel where his dad died trying to kill him. Obviously that jacked him up as he grew up. That experience still haunts him after all these years and it has affected his life hard in a psychological way.
The film adapts King’s novel but also has been reworked to fit Stanely Kubrick’s classic film as well and that’s something that they discuss in this new featurette. There was actually a special screening for the film last night that was hosted by Fandango! Did you get a chance to see it!?
Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the “shine.” Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.
Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abra’s innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before—at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.
Ewan McGregor takes on the role of Dan Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson plays Rose the Hat, and Kyliegh Curran, makes her major feature film debut, as Abra. The ensemble cast also includes Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.
Doctor Sleep is slated for release on November 8th, 2019.