The film received lukewarm to positive reviews from critics, who praised Flanagan's screenplay and the performances of the cast (especially McGregor, Ferguson, and Curran) but criticized its length. Filming began in September 2018 in Georgia, including Atlanta and the surrounding area, and concluded that December.ĭoctor Sleep held its world premiere at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on October 21, 2019, and was theatrically released worldwide on October 31, 2019, and in the United States on November 8. Flanagan said he wanted to reconcile the differences between The Shining novel and film. Flanagan was hired to rewrite Goldsman's script and direct the Doctor Sleep film. Writer-producer Akiva Goldsman wrote a script, but the studio did not secure a budget for the film until the box office success of its 2017 horror film It, also based on a novel by King. Pictures began developing a film adaptation shortly after Doctor Sleep was published in 2013. Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, and Cliff Curtis have supporting roles. Set several decades after the events of its predecessor, the film stars Ewan McGregor as Danny Torrance, a man with psychic abilities who struggles with childhood trauma. It is based on the 2013 Stephen King novel of the same name, and is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Doctor Sleep is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Mike Flanagan.
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