Ewan McGregor Cast as Adult Danny Torrance In Upcoming ‘Doctor Sleep’ Adaptation

Ewan McGregor was announced to star in the upcoming Doctor Sleep film, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 novel of the same name, and also the sequel to “The Shining.” The forthcoming movie will also serve as a direct sequel to the classic 1977 horror film The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, and starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall as Jack and Wendy Torrance respectively.

The Shining takes place when Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic, accepted a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated overlook hotel in Colorado Rockies. Jack with his wife Wendy Torrance and young son Danny Torrance, who is said to possess “the shining,” an emblaze psychic abilities that are allowing Danny to visualize the hotel’s horrific past. The hotel has a previous caretaker who went insane, killed his wife, 2 daughters and himself.  Production at EMI Elstree Studios took place almost exclusively with sets that are strongly based on real locations. Much speculation was presented into the meanings and actions of the movie.

According to Variety, McGregor will play the grown-up version of Danny Torrance in film Doctor Sleep as an adult struggling with alcoholism and anger issues. Danny working at a hospice where, aided by a prescient cat, Danny able to use his “shining”  to give comfort and aid to the dying. Danny then meets Abra Stone, a young girl with a “shining” of her own who is being followed by a True Knot, a number of psychic vampires sustaining themselves to children like her.  The story culminates with a fight on the site of the overlook hotel. The historic edifice that figures out prominently in Shining.

Mike Flanagan is set to direct Doctor Sleep, Flanagan previously tried his hands at kings materials with Gerald’s game, critically renowned take on the king Novel that once considered unadoptable. Flanagan rewrote the script Doctor Sleep, originally penned by Akiva Goldsman.