While it’s notoriously not one of Stephen King’s favorites, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is in most eyes a remarkable masterpiece of psychological terror.
Akiva Goldsman, who has some experience with King adaptations having worked on Nicolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower, was hired to pen the adaptation in Spring 2016, but since then Mike Flanagan – who has his own bit of King history with Gerald’s Game – has come aboard as director and is doing his own draft.
Ewan McGregor is attached to star as Danny, while the rest of the cast includes Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Chelsea Talmadge, Zahn McClarnon, and Alex Essoe.
That in mind, any follow-up story is certainly going to be the subject of intense scrutiny, but that’s just something that Doctor Sleep will have to go through.