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Spectacular New ‘Doctor Sleep’ Trailer Plays Into Our Love of ‘The Shining’ [Video]

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Ewan McGregor leads the cast as Danny Torrance in Mike Flanagan‘s Doctor Sleep, both an adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel novel and a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Today, Warner Bros. went a little mad and has released the film’s final trailer that’s nothing short of spectacular.

The footage plays into our recent obsession with nostalgia, focusing heavily on the imagery from Kubrick’s The Shining, hitting us with shots of the twins, the Overlook Hotel, young Danny on his Big Wheel, and blood spewing out of the elevator door – not to mention a breathtaking sweeping shot that echoes the opening of the 1980 film. It also finally offers us a story arc for the sequel, which looks to perfectly fit into the Shining “Universe”.

Here’s the trailer with more plot details below.

In Doctor Sleep, still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance (McGregor) 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.

ALSO READ: Here’s what we learned on our visit to the film’s set.

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.

McGregor stars alongside Rebecca Ferguson as Rose O’Hara (aka Rose the Hat), a character King introduced in Doctor Sleep. Carl Lumbly is playing Dick Hallorann with Alex Essoe as Wendy Torrance in the continuation of the storyline from The ShiningKyliegh Curran has been cast in the role of Abra Stone, a girl who has the gift of ‘The Shining’. Bruce Greenwood plays the role of Dr. John. Alyn Lind is Snakebite Andi, with Jocelin Donahue and Jacob Tremblay also starring.

Doctor Sleep hits theaters on November 8, 2019.

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Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’

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In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.

Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).

The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.

The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”

Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”

Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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