![]() ![]() Watch the trailer for Doctor Sleep on YouTube Adult Danny is still burdened with the telepathic power of “shining” (past tense “shined” not “shone”), but he has cultivated the art of shutting up his Overlook demons in imaginary boxes in his mind. His mum, Wendy, died not long after they moved away young Wendy is played in flashback by Alex Essoe. Now Danny (forthrightly played by Ewan McGregor) is all grownup, unemployed, homeless, addled with alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the grisly finale in the snow at the end of the first story. The Kubrick movie, from 1980, famously disliked by King, is a stylistic influence on this sequel, which references the big moments. ![]() Your attention is distracted from the central figure, who might otherwise have been an actual object of fascination: Danny Torrance, once the kid in the Overlook hotel, pedalling his trike around the eerily endless corridors and eventually pursued by his axe-wielding dad, unforgettably played by Jack Nicholson. ![]() It is more than half an hour longer than the Stanley Kubrick film, although it seems more than that – laborious, directionless and densely populated with boring new characters among whom the narrative focus is muddled and split. D id The Shining need a sequel? Well it’s got one now, adapted by director Mike Flanagan from Stephen King’s 2013 follow-up novel. ![]()
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