We’re just over one month away from our return to the Overlook Hotel in Mike Flanagan‘s Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel that will also serve as a direct sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. Both Flanagan and King offer insights in this brand new featurette video, which also includes footage not seen in any of the film’s trailers.
For starters, it gives us our first look at this film’s young Danny Torrance, the character originally played by Danny Lloyd in The Shining and by Roger Dale Floyd in Doctor Sleep!
Ewan McGregor leads the cast as adult Danny, with Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat.
Carl Lumbly is playing Dick Hallorann with Alex Essoe as Wendy Torrance in the continuation of the storyline from The Shining. Kyliegh 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.
In Doctor Sleep, 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.
Doctor Sleep hits theaters on November 8, 2019.
