Learn more about Danny Torrance’s journey in new Doctor Sleep featurette

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

In the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s follow-up to THE SHINING, DOCTOR SLEEP, the now-grown Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) will have to face the past horrors he experienced if it means making a better life for himself and stopping a growing evil. That’s a lot to put on a dude who already went through some shit as a child, and in the new featurette for DOCTOR SLEEP, we get a better look at Torrance’s journey and see a ton of new, freaky footage in the process.

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“This is a story that’s about Dan, still out there dealing with The Shining in a world that is dark and horrifying,” director Mike Flanagan said. “This is for anyone who is going to enjoy being petrified in a movie theater. It was a movie I was desperate to see.”

McGregor and King himself were also on hand to talk about Torrance and the movie, interlaced with a bunch of new footage. We get to see a young Danny back at the Overlook Hotel, glimpses of him in “Drifter mode”, and a lot more of Rebecca Ferguson’s character and Carl Lumbly as Dick Hallorann (played by Scatman Crothers in THE SHINING).

“Mike’s movie stands on its own, but it’s also a terrific sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s film,” King said.

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Here’s the synopsis:

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 is in theaters November 8.