There's a 3-Hour Director's Cut of DOCTOR SLEEP Coming and Mike Flanagan Reveals What To Expect
I loved director Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep. It was a great film, but unfortunately it didn’t do as well as expected at the box office, which is a shame. People missed out on a fantastic horror movie, which served as a sequel to The Shining.
For those people who didn’t see the film in theaters, you will get to see it when it’s released for home entertainment. Warner Bros. has revealed the first details for the Blu-ray release for Doctor Sleep and it will include a 3-hour director’s cut featuring 30 minutes of new footage, alternate scenes, and extended footage!
As a fan of the film, this makes me happy. When talking about what we can expect from this 3-hour cut of the film, Flanagan explained:
"I’m really excited that WB let me create this cut, much less release it. They really supported it – to the point that they made sure all of the new material with VFX was fully finished, additional score was composed and orchestrated just for this cut, and we did a full mix as well. They really let us do this right – it’s a finished, complete, fully polished new cut of the movie. Nothing in it is temp."
"There is new material throughout the whole film. Some of it is brand-new stuff that was never included in the theatrical cut, and there’s also a handful of extended (or altered) scenes as well. There was never any intention to release this cut theatrically, we always knew it was too long. But we worked on it alongside the theatrical cut throughout post, and it made it a lot easier to make hard decisions in the edit, knowing that some day this cut might see the light of day."
It’s great to hear that WB was completely on board with this and supportive Flanagan’s vision for the director’s cut. I can’t wait to watch it when it’s released on February 4th, 2020.
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.
The movie stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat, and Kyliegh Curran, in her major feature film debut, as Abra. The main ensemble cast also includes Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe and Cliff Curtis.
Via: Collider