Sequel To The Shining
Doctor sleep won the 2013 bram stoker award for best novel.
Sequel to the shining. Doctor sleep is a 2013 horror novel by american writer stephen king and the sequel to his 1977 novel the shining the book reached the first position on the new york times best seller list for print and ebook fiction combined hardcover fiction and ebook fiction. Mike flanagan oculus gerald s game takes. Doctor sleep a direct sequel will be released this november and just released its first trailer. Hailed as one of the most influential thrillers of all time the shining spawned iconic quotes complex characters and intense visuals.
Following the film s success concepts for films emerged that would round out the shining s story including a prequel called the overlook hotel and a sequel titled doctor sleep. Doctor sleep is a 2019 american supernatural horror film written and directed by mike flanagan it is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by stephen king a sequel to king s 1977 novel the shining the film which also serves as a direct sequel to the film adaptation of the shining directed by stanley kubrick is set several decades after the events of the original and combines elements of. Considering stanley kubrick s 1980 shining adaptation is considered one of the best horror. The film is a sequel to the shining and casts ewan mcgregor as an adult danny torrence.
Doctor sleep an adaptation of stephen king s follow up novel will be out on 24 january 2020. The shining is considered by many to be the greatest horror film ever. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name which was. In case you didn t know.
That was a really helpful way to look at it something that was already separated generationally. Attempted to resurrect the shining franchise last fall with the release of doctor sleep a film adaptation of king s shining sequel novel of the same name. It s called doctor sleep and it s airing on hbo this saturday night at 8 p m. The sequel to the shining finally has a release date.