Redrum! Redrum! The first trailer forDoctor Sleepis here, and it provides the first look at theadaptation of Stephen King’s sequelto one of the scariest books — and movies — ever made,The Shining.
Written and directed byThe Haunting of Hill HouseandOculusdirector Mike Flanagan,Doctor Sleepis set 40 years after the terrifying events ofThe Shining, and follows Danny Torrance as he contends with yet another supernatural threat. Ewan McGregor portrays Torrance in the film, which hits theaters November 8.
Along with giving audiences a look at the grown-up (but still traumatized) Dan Torrance, whose life is thrown back into nightmarish chaos when he meets a teenage girl who shares his extrasensory gift,the traileralso brings audiences back to the infamous Overlook Hotel. Hunted by a group that feeds on their “shining” ability, Dan and the girl, Abra (Kyliegh Curran), must find a way to use their abilities while confronting Dan’s nightmares of the past.
Joining McGregor and Curran in the cast areMission: Impossibleseries actress Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat, the leader of the group tormenting Dan and Abra.
Flanagan is joined behind the camera by several frequent collaborators, including many of the production team onThe Haunting of Hill House, the hit Netflix horror series. BothHill Housedirector of photography Michael Fimognari and composer The Newton Brothers return forDoctor Sleep, and the tone of the trailer feels eerily similar to that of the streaming series.
Doctor Sleepis one of several projects based on King’s novels currently in development at Warner Bros. Pictures, with a prequel toThe Shiningalso in the works titledOverlook Hotel. The massive success ofIt— based on King’s novel of the same name — in theaters has given many of these projects at Warner Bros. and other studios some added momentum, withIt: Chapter Twohitting theaters just a few months beforeDoctor Sleepon September 6.
Published more than three decades afterThe Shining,Doctor Sleepserved as a sequel to the 1977 novel.The Shiningwas adapted twice for the screen, with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film widely regarded as one of the scariest horror movies ever made, and a 1997 television miniseries that more closely followed King’s story also earned critical acclaim.
