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Ewan McGregor plays Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep, and the film’s ending finds Danny venturing back to where it all began: the Overlook Hotel. And once inside, he has a confrontation with...
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The Overlook Hotel was haunted. That’s very clear in The Shining novel but not so much in the film, as Kubrick took a lot of creative license. Still, the film established that the hotel is inhabited by the ghosts of those who have died there, and they won’t hesitate on manipulating those who arrive in order to claim more lives. The Shining featured...
Almost four decades have passed since The Shining was released, so the team behind Doctor Sleep had to recreate sets and scenes from the film the best way they could (or in ways that suited the story and its aesthetic). When it came to bringing back characters, most of them were simply recast, but it wasn’t that simple with Jack Torrance. Jack Nich...
The Overlook Hotel works in mysterious ways, but what is known about it is that the evil forces in it are the result of past tragedies, and that’s why there are so many ghosts living in it. Those who died there never left, and the hotel uses them to claim more lives – case in point, Grady’s ghost manipulated Jack to kill Wendy and Danny. Doctor Sle...
Among the many changes Kubrick made was the source of Jack’s breakdown, as he made it seem like it came from his own mind and just needed a little push to lose his last bits of sanity. Doctor Sleep tried to fix Kubrick’s mistakesand bring some cohesiveness between the two novels and the two films, and that included shedding some light on what the O...
Roger Dale Floyd plays young Danny Torrance (who was originally played by Danny Lloyd), and Alex Essoe plays Wendy Torrance (taking over the role from Shelley Duvall). Dick Hallorann also returns as a ghost, this time around played by Carl Lumbly (succeeding the late Scatman Crothers, who played Hallorann in The Shining and passed away in 1986).
Sep 5, 2019 · At the center of Doctor Sleep is the story of Danny Torrance, who was a little boy in The Shining, but is now a grown man dealing with the same addiction that sent his father, Jack, down a...
Aug 22, 2019 · Ewan McGregor plays Dan Torrance in Doctor Sleep. Dan is one of three major Shining characters to be featured in the sequel. He's a heavy drinker in his early adult years, using alcohol to suppress the psychic ability he calls "the shining". Dan is plagued by memories of the Overlook Hotel and is still haunted by its ghosts.
In 2013, Stephen King released the novel Doctor Sleep, a sequel to the 1977 novel that features an adult Dan Torrance as the protagonist. Warner Bros. Pictures produced a film adaptation of the novel with actor Ewan McGregor playing the adult Dan Torrance. The film was released in November 2019.
Danny Torrance : We're all dying. The world's just one big hospice with fresh air. The Bartender : [Jack takes a drink] A man tries. He provides. But is surrounded by mouths that eat and scream and cry and nag. So he asks for one thing, just one thing for him, to warm him up, to take the sting out of those days and the mouths eating and eating ...
