McGregor and Christensen will star as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, respectively, but they won’t be the only familiar faces in this series. Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse are set to reprise their roles as Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, who took in Luke Skywalker after Anakin turned to the dark side.

In addition to these four Star Wars veterans, the new series will feature several newcomers. Indira Varma, Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie joined the cast in unspecified roles.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is expected to take place 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where the titular character witnessed the downfall of his friend and Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker. The series will start shooting later this month, with Deborah Chow serving as the director.

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The forthcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 novel is also a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shinning, which was made into the critically acclaimed 1980 film by Stanley Kubrick. 

The film centers on now adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor), Jack Nicholson’s on-screen son in The Shining, battling a drinking problem and the emergence of strange powers. He then encounters a teenager named Abra who, like himself, has a powerful extrasensory gift.

“When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining,” he tells Abra (Kyliegh Curran) in the trailer. 

“We pick up Dan in New Jersey and in the throes of his alcoholism, kind of right at rock bottom is where we meet him,” writer-director Mike Flanagan said.

“He’s nomadic, he’s violent, he’s crawled so far into a bottle that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out. It’s really kind of a strange experience to meet your hero kind at their most awful version of themselves. Structurally, it’s really fascinating, from a writing point of view. You kind of feel like, ‘This is our hero, ladies and gentlemen, you’re going to meet him puking.’ So, yeah, we pick up Dan at the lowest point of his life, and, more than anything, this is a story about his redemption and trying to avoid repeating the same fate that his father had to deal with, outside of the hotel, just with his own addiction.”

The feature also stars Carl Lumbly, Zahn McLarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.

Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8. 

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Warner Bros. had been developing an on-screen adaptation to Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep and sequel to The Shining for years now. Variety reports that the studios have finally decided to fast-track the project into pre-production. 

Set to star as all grown up Danny Torrance is Ewan McGregor, a casting that King himself has given a blessing to. 

Doctor Sleep picks up with Torrance in middle age, still haunted by the trauma of the Overlook Hotel. A spitting image of his father, a man who suffers from rage and a drinking problem, he works as a hospice nurse. Once he embraces sobriety, he uses his “shining” powers to ease the transition for dying patients at the hospice when he discovers that there is a way for his powers to grow. 

Mike Flanagan is directing and Trevor Macy is producing along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg.

Whether Doctor Sleep will be a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version of The Shining or the novel itself is not yet known. King himself told EW: “One of the things — and I’m not sure if this is going to be a problem for readers or not — is that Doctor Sleep is a sequel to the novel. It’s not a sequel to the 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.”

The original adaptation of The Shinning starred Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd as young Danny Torrance. 

You can see McGregor next in Disney’s new live-action Winnie the Pooh adaptation, Christopher Robin.

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McGregor and Christensen will star as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, respectively, but they won’t be the only familiar faces in this series. Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse are set to reprise their roles as Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, who took in Luke Skywalker after Anakin turned to the dark side.

In addition to these four Star Wars veterans, the new series will feature several newcomers. Indira Varma, Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie joined the cast in unspecified roles.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is expected to take place 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where the titular character witnessed the downfall of his friend and Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker. The series will start shooting later this month, with Deborah Chow serving as the director.

The post Joel Edgerton, Kumail Nanjiani & More Set to Star in “Obi-Wan Kenobi” appeared first on TheDailyDay.

The forthcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 novel is also a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shinning, which was made into the critically acclaimed 1980 film by Stanley Kubrick. 

The film centers on now adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor), Jack Nicholson’s on-screen son in The Shining, battling a drinking problem and the emergence of strange powers. He then encounters a teenager named Abra who, like himself, has a powerful extrasensory gift.

“When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining,” he tells Abra (Kyliegh Curran) in the trailer. 

“We pick up Dan in New Jersey and in the throes of his alcoholism, kind of right at rock bottom is where we meet him,” writer-director Mike Flanagan said.

“He’s nomadic, he’s violent, he’s crawled so far into a bottle that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out. It’s really kind of a strange experience to meet your hero kind at their most awful version of themselves. Structurally, it’s really fascinating, from a writing point of view. You kind of feel like, ‘This is our hero, ladies and gentlemen, you’re going to meet him puking.’ So, yeah, we pick up Dan at the lowest point of his life, and, more than anything, this is a story about his redemption and trying to avoid repeating the same fate that his father had to deal with, outside of the hotel, just with his own addiction.”

The feature also stars Carl Lumbly, Zahn McLarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.

Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8. 

The post The First Trailer For “Doctor Sleep” is Here appeared first on TheDailyDay.

Warner Bros. had been developing an on-screen adaptation to Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep and sequel to The Shining for years now. Variety reports that the studios have finally decided to fast-track the project into pre-production. 

Set to star as all grown up Danny Torrance is Ewan McGregor, a casting that King himself has given a blessing to. 

Doctor Sleep picks up with Torrance in middle age, still haunted by the trauma of the Overlook Hotel. A spitting image of his father, a man who suffers from rage and a drinking problem, he works as a hospice nurse. Once he embraces sobriety, he uses his “shining” powers to ease the transition for dying patients at the hospice when he discovers that there is a way for his powers to grow. 

Mike Flanagan is directing and Trevor Macy is producing along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg.

Whether Doctor Sleep will be a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version of The Shining or the novel itself is not yet known. King himself told EW: “One of the things — and I’m not sure if this is going to be a problem for readers or not — is that Doctor Sleep is a sequel to the novel. It’s not a sequel to the 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.”

The original adaptation of The Shinning starred Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd as young Danny Torrance. 

You can see McGregor next in Disney’s new live-action Winnie the Pooh adaptation, Christopher Robin.

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