So Dick Halloran, teaches Dan how to keep them away by imprisoning them in his mind. Though the Overlook Hotel no longer stands, the ghosts won't leave him alone. "It seemed like such a wasted opportunity to revisit Dan Torrance and not revisit the Overlook Hotel," Flanagan also said during that set visit.Īs does the film, the Doctor Sleep book checks in with a young Danny, still psychologically traumatized from the events of the Overlook, but trying to move on with his mother.
Kubrick's The Shining leaves the Overlook Hotel still standing, while it burns to the ground in the novel. This forces Dan to face his demons down and return to the Overlook Hotel.Īnd here's where Doctor Sleep sharply diverges from the book on which it's based. She enlists his help to defeat a group called he True Knot, who prey on children possessing the shine in order to gain immortality. He moves to a small town in New Hampshire in the hopes of finding peace and winds up working at a nursing home, where he uses his remaining "shining" powers to comfort its elderly residents before they draw their last breath - thus earning the nickname "Doctor Sleep." Via their psychic connection, he meets a young girl named Abra (Kyliegh Curran) who has an even more powerful shine. Now an adult, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is struggling with addiction, like his father Jack.
"It was a question of how do we try to combine those two worlds in a way that’s going to make Stephen feel really satisfied with what we did, and also honor the legacy of the Kubrick film and what it means to cinephiles, one of the most influential, the most influential horror movie of all time," Flanagan told press at a set visit last year, per Slash Film.
To serve fans, filmmaker Mike Flanagan's movie version of King's 2013 sequel novel includes some elements from Kubrick's take and thus, makes some changes to the plot of the Doctor Sleep book.
That adaptation of Stephen King's 1977 novel isn't a favorite of the author's, as it changes some significant plot points, including the way that The Shining book ends. 8, isn't a straightforward sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, The Shining.
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