Rebecca Ferguson In Talks To Join Ewan McGregor In THE SHINING Sequel DOCTOR SLEEP

According to Variety, Rebecca Ferguson (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN) is apparently in talks to star alongside Ewan McGregor in the upcoming sequel to THE SHINING. The film is titled DOCTOR SLEEP.

Ewan McGregor will star as grown-up Danny Torrance in the film version of Doctor Sleep, Stephen King's sequel to The Shining. The book picks up with Torrance in middle age, still haunted by demons both real and internal. He works as a hospice nurse, using his psychic powers to ease the transition for dying patients, but he's also fighting for sobriety, the same addiction that made his dad so vulnerable to the evil forces lingering around the Overlook Hotel decades before.

The movie is being directed by Hush and Oculus filmmaker Mike Flanagan, whose previous thriller Gerald's Game was also an adaptation of a King novel.

While parts of the novel do take place amid the ruins of the hotel, on that sacred/poisoned land that focuses sinister unseen energies, most of Doctor Sleep is a road movie.

There are physical supernatural beings trying to prey on Dan Torrance this time. The True Knot is a group of vampire-like immortals who nourish themselves on the energy of those with psychic abilities. Their victims die in extreme agony. Along the way, Torrance finds himself protecting a young girl named Abra, who has an even more potent version of "the shine."

Read more about it from Variety here!

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