The First Trailer For “Doctor Sleep” is Here

Ewan McGregor in "Doctor Sleep"

The first official trailer for The Shinning sequel, Doctor Sleep, is here.

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.