Nearly six years ago the master Stephen King wrote Doctor Sleep — a sequel to his iconic novel The Shining. And, because we are still very much living in a Stephen King renaissance, they're making Doctor Sleep into a movie. Here's your first look at the teaser trailer:
Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor as a grown-up Danny Torrance and takes place 40 years after his terrifying stay at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.
A little side-by-side for funsies:
And for anyone familiar with Stanley Kubrick's legendary 1980 adaptation of The Shining, there are A LOT of great callbacks to it in the teaser trailer...
Like the unnerving "REDRUM" message Danny wrote with his mother's lipstick.
This SUPER-CREEPY bathtub scene of the lady in Room 237.
The scary Grady twins from the hallway:
And, of course, the doorway Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) smashed through with an ax and said, "Heeeeeere's Johnny!"
And even the MUSIC from The Shining makes an audible cameo at the end of the teaser. IT'S SO WONDERFULLY CREEPY.
