All work and no play makesEwan McGregora dull boy!
The actor stars in the upcoming filmDoctor Sleep, which dropped its first trailer on Thursday and is based on authorStephen King‘s sequel toThe Shining.McGregor, 48, plays a grown-up version of Danny Torrance in the movie.
Fans ofThe Shiningwill remember Danny as the young son of Jack Torrance, the character thatJack Nicholsonmade famous in the 1980 horror classic.
In the trailer, Danny is still grappling with the trauma he endured as a kid while living with his father at the Overlook Hotel. The character then meets a young girl who has “the shining” — the same psychic power that Danny learned he possessed as a kid.
“I’ve only met two or three people like us,” Danny tells the girl. “They died.”
The trailer also features numerous callbacks to the 1980 film — including a shot of McGregor’s character looking through a door that his father once famously hacked through with an ax.
Other callbacks include a shot of the terrifying lady in the bathtub in one of the hotel’s rooms, and another look at the creepy identical female twins, both scenes made famous inThe Shining.
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It’s unclear whetherDoctor Sleepwill more closely align with the novel or the movie version ofThe Shining, which are somewhat different.
King wroteDoctor Sleepas a sequel to his novel, tellingEntertainment Weeklyin 2013, “One of the things — and I’m not sure if this is going to be a problem for readers or not — is thatDoctor Sleepis a sequel to the novel. It’s not a sequel to the [Stanley] Kubrick film. At the end of the Kubrick film, the Overlook is still there. It just kind of freezes. But at the end of the book, it burns down.”
Doctor Sleeparrives in theaters this November.
source: people.com
