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Nov 11, 2019 · Doctor Sleep is a sequel to both The Shining film and novel, and it achieved this by changing and explaining The Shining movie's ending. Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep was published in 2013 and is a sequel to one of his most famous works: The Shining, published in 1977. The story follows adult Danny Torrance as he deals with the trauma ...
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OCLC. 858924527. Preceded by. The Shining. Doctor Sleep is a 2013 horror novel by American writer Stephen King and the sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining. The book reached the first position on The New York Times Best Seller list for print, ebook, and hardcover fiction. Doctor Sleep won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
- Stephen King
- 2013
- The Overlook Hotel
- Dan Torrance
- Abra and Her Family
- Dan Torrance’s Friends
- Measles
- Vampire Teeth
This is the biggest change in the film adaptation of Doctor Sleep, and most of the changes ripple out from here. In both Stephen King’s and Stanley Kubrick’s versions of The Shining, disgraced alcoholic Jack Torrance takes a job as the Overlook Hotel’s winter caretaker, falls off the wagon, descends into madness, and attempts to murder his wife and...
If you’re making a movie where the Overlook Hotel’s boiler explodes the way it did in the novel The Shining, it stands to reason that one of your characters will end up in the Jack Torrance role, possessed by the hotel, shambling down to the basement in a doomed attempt to prevent the fire—and that’s exactly what happens to Dan. In the book version...
Both the book and film versions of Doctor Sleep revolve around Abra Stone, a kid with even stronger psychic powers than young Danny Torrance, but in the novel, Abra’s family plays a much more significant role. Her great-grandmother, a Vassar-educated Italian poetess named Concetta Reynolds, is mentioned in passing in the film, whereas in the book s...
In book and movie alike, Dan Torrance hits rock bottom sometime in the 2000s in Frazier, New Hampshire, but in the film, his support network has been consolidated. Casey Kingsley, the man in the book who gives Dan his first job in town and eventually becomes his AA sponsor, doesn’t make the screen at all, and John Dalton, whose dual status as docto...
When you’re setting up a showdown between two gifted-but-mortal humans and a pack of nearly immortal, incredibly wealthy psychic vampires, you’ve got to give the vampires a good reason to not simply ignore the humans and go on their merry way. In both versions of Doctor Sleep, the vampires are running out of food, but King gives them an extra motiv...
Here is a passage from Doctor Sleep, describing what happens to the appearance of the leader of the psychic vampires when she feeds: In the film version of Doctor Sleep, Rebecca Ferguson’s eyes glow when she feeds, but she doesn’t dislocate her own jaw in the process, nor do her upper teeth transform into a single monstrous tusk. It’s not really cl...
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‘Doctor Sleep’ Ending Explained: Bridging the Gap Between ‘The Shining’ Book and Film Doctor Sleep (2019) By Adam Chitwood. Published Jan 21, 2020. Your changes have been saved.
Nov 8, 2019 · Doctor Sleep is based on the novel by Stephen King, which is a sequel to The Shining, one of the author’s earliest and most popular novels.Considering the two books were published nearly a ...
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Sep 24, 2013 · Doctor Sleep is the 64th book published by Stephen King. It is his 51st novel and the 44th under his own name. The novel is a direct sequel to King's 1977 novel The Shining. Following the events of The Shining, Danny remains psychologically traumatized, while Wendy, his mother, slowly recovers from her injuries. Angry ghosts from the Overlook Hotel eventually find Danny, including the woman ...
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Nov 8, 2019 · But in the book…. The ending of the novel The Shining ended with the explosion of the Overlook Hotel as seen in the movie of Doctor Sleep. Which means the ending of the Doctor Sleep novel was ...
