Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the book, Rose the Hat is part of a polyamorous romance with both Crow Daddy and Snakebite Andi.Actor Allusion: Ewan McGregor plays someone with powerful telepathic abilities who acts as a mentor to someone far younger with similar and also very powerful abilities and continues in that role even after dying.Abandoned Area: The Overlook Hotel became one after Jack's rampage.The film was released on November 8th, 2019. 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. Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat (Ferguson) and her followers, the True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.įorming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose and the True Knot. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra (Curran), a courageous teenager with her own powerful shine. Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance (McGregor) has fought to find some semblance of peace. It was written and directed by Mike Flanagan and stars Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran, and Rebecca Ferguson.
The film itself is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of The Shining.
A long-in-the-works series set at the Overlook Hotel was initially set to move forward as an HBO Max original but was officially dropped in 2021.Doctor Sleep is a 2019 horror film based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, which is a sequel to The Shining. But the idea was to open with him as Carl Lumbly, and then to find a way to go back into the past and kind of tell this other story that inevitably would, very much in the way ‘Doctor Sleep’ did, inevitably bring us back to a familiar hotel.”Ī Flanagan-directed Dick Halloran isn’t the only “Shining”-related project that got killed after “Doctor Sleep” failed at the box office. And the ‘Doctor Sleep’ novel tees up a prologue for it perfectly with the story of his grandmother and his grandfather. Worldwide, “Doctor Sleep” only earned $72 million.įlanagan revealed in 2020 that his second “The Shining” movie was supposed to go into development right after he wrapped “Doctor Sleep,” telling the ReelBlend podcast (via Collider), “Hallorann was always more about Dick as a younger man learning about the shining. The movie opened to only $14 million at the domestic box office and tapped out at $31 million, far below its reported $45 million production budget. “Doctor Sleep,” based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name and starring Ewan McGregor as an older Danny Torrance, opened in theaters in October 2019 to mixed reviews but disappointing box office numbers.
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