Director Mike Flanagan is now attached to call the shots on Doctor Sleep, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 sequel novel to his horror/thriller classic The Shining.
He is also a very different sort of storyteller than Stanley Kubrick, so his adaptation of Doctor Sleep shouldn’t feel at all like a pale imitation of the latter’s famous big screen adaptation of King’s original Shining novel.
Doctor Sleep doesn’t have an official release date yet.
Flanagan is fresh off having directed Netflix’s critically acclaimed movie adaptation of King’s psychological horror/thriller Gerald’s Game, and even expressed his desire to adapt King’s Shining sequel in an interview late last year.