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Because King could not attend Rocky Wood had the honor of accepting on king's behalf. King's acceptance speech was read out: 'I'm delighted to have won this award and want to thank everyone who voted for my book. Deciding to write a sequel to The Shining was a scary idea in itself, and while I was working on it, I kept telling myself I was crazy, and no one would like it. I'm glad I was wrong. Thanks again for this affirmation.'
http://horror.org/winners-2013-bram-stoker-awards/
Flanagan will rewrite the script originally adapted by Akiva Goldsman. Flanagan’s producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg, and Goldsman is executive producer.
Sources say King has given his blessing to McGregor’s casting.
McGregor is on board to star as the adult version of Danny Torrance in the pic. It is unknown who Ferguson will be playing.
McGregor stars as the adult version of Danny Torrance, while Ferguson plays Rose the Hat. Sources say McClarnon would portray Crow Daddy, the right-hand man of Ferguson’s character.
Mike Flanagan Says ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is in the “Same Cinematic Universe” as ‘The Shining’
Ever since Warner Bros. and New Line announced Doctor Sleep, the big question on everyone’s mind has been the same: Exactly what version of The Shining is this a sequel to? Is this a straight adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 follow-up novel? Is it a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1980 film adaptation? Can it be both when King and Kubrick had famously divided interpretations of the material? In what will likely come as a relief to horror fans, it seems the answer is yes.
Ahead of today’s Doctor Sleep trailer debut, I had the opportunity to join a group of journalists for a chat with writer/director Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy to get some insight on the tricky project, and the filmmakers confirmed that Doctor Sleep is intended to serve as a sequel to both the novel and the film; a tricky balancing act that demanded precision adaptation work.
When asked which version of The Shining his film would be a sequel to, Flanagan seemed eager to answer the big question. “The answer’s really complicated,” he said. The answer to all of those questions for us has always been yes. It is an adaptation of the novel Doctor Sleep, which is Stephen King’s sequel to his novel, The Shining. But this also exists very much in the same cinematic universe that Kubrick established in his adaptation of The Shining.”
“As a lot of you know, I imagine all of you know, Stephen King’s opinions about the Kubrick adaptation are famous and complicated,” he continued. “And complicated to the point that if you’ve read the book, you know that he actively and intentionally ignored kind of everything that Kubrick had changed about his novel and kind of defiantly said, ‘Nope, this exists completely outside of the Kubrick universe.'”
No doubt that only made Flanagan and Macy’s jobs more challenging, but the filmmakers had the opportunity to vet their ideas with the man himself. “We had to go to King and explain how — and some of that amounts to very practical questions about certain characters who are alive in the novel The Shining who are not alive by the end of the film — how to deal with that,” Flanagan recalled. “And then, in particular, how to get into the vision of The Overlook that Kubrick had created. Our pitches to Stephen went over surprisingly well and we came out of the conversation with not only his blessing to do what we ended up doing, but his encouragement. This project has had for me the two most nerve-wracking moments of my entire career, and the first was sending the first draft of the script to Stephen King and that was utterly terrifying, but he thankfully really loved it.”
“We got to see his plans. Annotated by Kubrick. It’s so cool,” Flanagan interjected with excitement. In the new trailer, that attention to detail is evident. In fact, Flanagan composed a number of iconic shots from the ground up to faithfully recreate Kubrick’s vision. We see Danny on his tricycle, those horrifying Grady twins, the blood elevator, and the woman from Room 237 — only the blood elevator shot is pulled from the original film, Flanagan shot everything else with an obsessive eye for detail.
“I don’t want to spoil to what… we’ve been able to revisit from Kubrick’s world,” Flanagan said, teasing even more callbacks beyond what we see in the trailer. “But I can say that everything that we decided to use, our intention was always to detail, and reverence, and making sure that we were doing it properly, with the hope that even kind of the most rabid cinephiles might not be able to tell the difference with some of our frames and some of his.”
That said, if Flanagan and his team worked diligently to make sure Dan’s memories of the Overlook felt at home in Kubrick’s universe, they definitely weren’t trying to make a film that imitates Kubrick’s style. “That would be impossible,” Flanagan said bluntly (and correctly.) “As much as we talked about the balance between King and Kubrick,” he continued, “I said there’s no way that I could ever dare to kind of stand up to direct comparison with Stanley Kubrick. It’s ridiculous. At the same, at the end of the day, this is one of our movies.” That means that Flanagan and Macy will also bring their signature style to the equation, and while Doctor Sleep shares a universe with The Shining, they’re telling a whole new story.
“So, while [The Shining] is definitely an element of the movie that we’re making,” he continued, “the heart and soul of the movie and the reason we wanted to make it at all was really about this new story between Dan and Abra. It’s unavoidably connected to that, but it is its own thing in a big way.”
That said, there’s no denying the omnipresent pressure of representing The Shining, one of the most beloved horror titles in history. “In a very real sense we’re standing on the shoulders of literary and cinematic giants,” Macy said. And they dedicated themselves to nailing down every single detail in the process of getting it right. Even the tiniest differences — should it be Room 217, as it is in the book, or Room 237 as it is in Kubrick’s film? — were the source of “robust arguements” during prep. “We went back and forth about four times in prep,” Macy said. Ultimately, as the trailer reveals, Room 237 won out, but that’s only one of countless Easter Eggs laid into a film that strives to strike a near impossible balance between two horror icons.
Of course, we already know Flanagan has a gift for “impossible” adaptations. In 2016, Flanagan delivered Gerald’s Game, the striking and emotionally resonant film adaptation of King’s novel, long considered “unfilmable” for the fact that pretty much the whole thing is the internal monologue of a woman handcuffed to a bed. Against the odds, Flanagan turned it into one of the best King adaptations to date. And it sounds like he may have done it again. Both King and the Kubrick estate were sent a cut of the film. How did it go? “Both went very well,” Flanagan said. “That was always the hope going in, was that if there was some universe in which Stephen King and the Stanley Kubrick estate could both love this movie, that is the dream. Threading that needle has been the source of every ulcer we’ve had the last two years.”
Asked if they faced any spooky on-set occurrences in line with the production of Kubrick’s film, Flanagan said that ultimately, “the scariest thing for us was making sure that we got the details correct.”
The Doctor Sleep trailer was unveiled earlier this week and original Shining actor Danny Lloyd was "surprised" by it. Lloyd famously played the young version of Danny Torrance in the Stanley Kubrick classic. Mike Flanagan directed the new movie, which is based off Stephen King's novel and from the looks of things, Kubrick's 1980 movie, which is also based on King's source material. The trailer was received very well by fans who are trying to figure out what exactly is going on in the three minutes of footage we were treated to.
Danny Lloyd is no longer an actor and grants very few interviews since stepping away from the entertainment business. Lloyd is now a college biology professor and he was pleasantly surprised by what he saw in the Doctor Sleep trailer. He had this to say when asked about the trailer and seeing someone else portraying his character.
In the big screen adaptation of Doctor Sleep, Ewan McGregor steps in to play the adult version of Danny Torrance. The older Danny is all set to go up against a semi-vampire in a battle for the soul of a young girl who also has the shining. While Danny Lloyd doesn't go around advertising he was in The Shining these days, his family is well aware and they like to tease him about it. Lloyd says, "When it was on Netflix, my kids were watching it and making fun of my haircut."
As far as Ewan McGregor taking on the Danny Torrance role from The Shining, Danny Lloyd is ready to see it and backs it 100%. "I'd like to see it right when it comes out," says Lloyd when asked about checking out Doctor Sleep when it hits theaters. Maybe Mike Flanagan and Stephen King can help him out and send him to the world premiere. That might actually get his kids to stop making fun of his haircut from The Shining and score him some cool points at the same time.
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Danny Lloyd was only five-years old when he starred alongside Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall in The Shining. As for getting recognized by horror fans while teaching college courses these days, the former actor says it doesn't happen too often, but when it does it's normally someone who is on the older side. Regardless, Lloyd is excited to see Doctor Sleep and so are a lot more people who are curious about how the movie deals with The Shining and Stephen King's sequel. You can check out the rest of the interview with Lloyd over at The Hollywood Reporter.
DOCTOR SLEEP has officially been rated R by the MPAA for “disturbing and violent content, some bloody images, language, nudity, and drug use.”
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