It’s because of this that Mike Flanagan has found himself in the rarified air of the likes of Frank Darabont, a man who also had the Midas Touch with Stephen King’s work, as he adapted The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist into fan favorites.
Certainly for Doctor Sleep to exist in this form, Stephen King would have to be involved and would also have to trust writer/director Mike Flanagan as the man to do the project justice.
That’s a pretty easy scenario to game out, as not only has Flanagan worked on King’s material before, courtesy of Netflix’s adaptation of Gerald’s Game, but the master of horror himself even gave a seal of approval to the director’s work on The Haunting of Hill House.