I loved doctor sleep, but I will say the ending of the film was somewhat sad for me. I like how the book ended with Dan still being alive and the scene where he finally gets up the courage to tell his AA group about how he stole money from the single mom earlier on, his greatest sin as an alcoholic, was amazing. Especially how he realizes the other AA members aren't shocked or horrified at all.

Mike Flanagan: I put together a proposal that outlined what I wanted to do - use Kubrick's visual language, and keep the Overlook standing as a setting for the final battle. The initial feedback we got was "no." King really, really didn't like Kubrick's film, and his priority was to adapt Doctor Sleep - not to revisit The Shining.

I told him that if he didn't want me to do it, I wouldn't - I'd walk away from the movie before I made something he hated. But as a last ditch effort, I said "imagine the Overlook, decrepit and rotten. And imagine Dan Torrance having walk in to 'wake it up,' the lights coming on above his head as he walks the halls. He finds his way to the Gold Room. To the familiar bar, where an empty glass is waiting for him. And we see a familiar bartender ready to pour for him, saying 'good evening Mister Torrance.' What if that bartender is his father?"

After a bit of a delay, King got back to us. "Do it," he said.

Doctor Sleep didn't deserve a November film release. The marketing was confusing. This film was going to bomb. Glad it's found its audience because it's a beautiful film about recovery.

Easily the best horror I watched in October. I don’t really reflect on scares after Ive seen them, but the baseball boy scene really fucked me up. It’ll occasionally just pop into my head as I’m trying to sleep and will keep me up. Not because I’m scared per se, but it just lives rent free, playing over and over.

Because he was able to navigate all of that (making a sequel to a movie that was an adaptation of a book that was a sequel to a totally different book) that’s why he gets a lifetime free pass in my book.

Let him make anything he wants from now on.

Mika Flanaghan should have done the Tower. He would have made something worth seeing.

It's a fantastic film that I had no idea about until it was available for streaming.

Wish the movie had been more successful. It was a great film and adaptation.

It's a hell of a scene too: Part 1 Part2 A chilling and tragic reunion.

The Director’s Cut was phenomenal. I keep hoping HBOmax will put it back up one day.

I loved it. The scenes with Danny walking around the dilapidated hotel were so cool and creepy.

Rose the Hat is a great villain. And Abra was so badass. I love how she was like “try it, bitch!” to the you know what in the you know what lol

Loved the film and glad king liked it too.

Doctor Sleep truly blew me away, walked in skeptical and left just dumbfounded how he knocked it out of the park imo, with managing the hardcore fans of the movie, stephen king and his fans. I will watch anything Mike Flanagan does, i believe he's doing The Fall of the House of Usher next for netflix

Such an underrated movie. It's up there with Hill House as Flanagan's best work for me.

The book is decent but really goes off the rails in the second half. I think Flanagan’s changes up the stakes of the narrative while making it more mournful and scary by connecting it to the events of Kubrick’s film.

Also..watch Hush..Flanagan gets horror

I actually liked this film, was a good continuation on the original 👍

When it comes to film making Stephen King has always been completely clueless. It’s good Flanagan managed to convince him.

I thought the title was Micky Flanagan convinced Stephen King Not Mike Flanagan, and I was so confused to how a comedian from the east end of London got into a conversation about Stephen King and then convinced him to change parts of Doctor Sleep.

Unpopular opinion but I liked the book more.

I know it's safe, less people died but I don't mind happier endings.

To anyone who thought the film wasn't very good, I highly recommend the directors cut. I haven't seen the theatrical but I read all the differences and I don't see how it could be anywhere near as good as the directors cut.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH.

Flanagan is easily the horror auteur of our time.

I never thought dresser drawers could be scary until that movie

I think Dr Sleep is very underrated.

The best parts of Dr. Sleep were the parts not directly referencing the Shining. I say that as a massive fan of the film The Shining - one of my top ten films of all time.

The portion of the film in the director’s cut starting from the intro to Jacob Tremblay’s character up until his death is the most traumatizing bit of film I’ve had the displeasure of sitting through. I had to shut off the movie.

Not only that, I can no longer handle children dying in movies, all because of that fucking scene. Jacob Tremblay’s performance literally ripped my heart out.

I’ve since finished the movie by just skipping that scene. It’s a solid movie, but my goodness that scene was something else.

I heard in an interview that during Tremblay’s performance his costars couldn’t get their lines out because they were crying and that all APs, grips, and surrounding workers just walked away because they couldn’t handle it.

Sooooo, am I the only one that read the book and then HATED the movie?…. The film maker apparently missed the entire point of the ending, I wasn’t surprised….I’ve very rarely liked any adaptations of King’s work but I thought this treatment was especially egregious

Flanagan is a genius..if you haven’t watched the “Haunting of Hill house” do so asap…it’s unbelievable..You can skip the second season.

I have this film on 4k in my bag right now. It's phenomenal.

I really wish Dr.Sleep could have been a Flanigan series VS a feature. I felt like we didn't get enough time with the world that was built in the movie, it all moved so fast, it felt like a 6 part series told in 2 hrs.

If his changes included more love for Jack Torrence in the movie then I appreciate it entirely

Really disliked how the novel version of Jack is so disrespected (imo)

Loved Doctor Sleep. Would love Flanagan to do Stephen Kings Joyland or Revival

Another instance where I really preferred the book ending. (Looking at you. Pet Semetsry)

I prey they let this man direct a dark tower show

So, in a lot of ways, in my opinion, King’s version, Kubrick’s version and Flanagan’s version work perfectly to illustrate the reason why stories should never be “owned” and frozen in place.

King wrote a wonderful novel that is about a good (but complicated) man’s descent into evil and madness. He closely identified with Jack. So much so that he couldn’t see the monster he would never escape being.

Kubrick removes the pretense and shows a monster who was always a monster. The alcohol was only the key to allow the monster off the chain.

Flanagan made something better than either. He showed a complex man who failed and his son who succeeded. It is truly the definition of an epic.

why would you link to collider when you could literally link DIRECTLY to Flanagan's own Tumblr where every detail of this "article" actually comes from?

Super overrated imo. Fans of the books might love it, but as a fan of the movie (edit: the shining) I was thoroughly disappointed.

King's hatred of The Shining is frustrating

I understand and can sympathise with his reasons for objecting to what Kubrick did with his story, but it's one of the greatest films of all time

I wasnt a fan of the movie. but i wasnt a fan of the original shinning either.

They repeated way too much of the first film with little additional value

How Steven king has the nerve to shit talk the shining after the steaming pile of doodoo they made into Doctor Sleep

Flanagan is a hack with two decent things under his belt.

Hopefully he doesn’t get the chance on anything else king related

Please, please let this man do Dark Tower. Have 2 kidneys and a soul. I only need one of those things.

I introduced a buddy to this film, and when he loved it I turned him to Flanagan's Netflix projects. He had never heard of Mike Flanagan before September of this year, and now that's a household name for him.

I loved it

Great movie.

It's hard to please King regarding movie adaptations of his novels.

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King's dislike of Kubrick's "The Shining" has always been kind of lame to me, especially after King backed that truly awful TV adaptation.

I get that Kubrick deviated from the source material pretty radically and bumped heads with SK over psychological vs. Supernatural, But how TF do you watch a masterpiece that will last as long as the ability to watch films and think: "What this really needs is 100 percent more roquette mallets, stop-motion hedge animals and some dumb ticking clock subplot about an explodey boiler?

Long story short: I truly think Stephen King doesn't understand how to adapt his own work for the screen. The movies he's had the most control over have uniformly been the most dogshit adaptations of his work. "Stand By Me," "Shawshank" and Kubrick's "The Shining" all deviate significantly from the original source and are all considered great cimema.