Ewan McGregor as Danny in Doctor Sleep
Summary Director Mike Flanagan reacts to one of Stephen King's predictions about Doctor Sleep coming true. Doctor Sleep is a 2019 sequel to the classic Stanley Kubrick film The Shining, starring a leading cast including Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis, Zahn McCarlnon, and Emily Alyn Lind. It is directed and written by genre auteur Flanagan, who has been considered a master of horror for a number of years.
Proving this message to be true, Flanagan posted a link to a Hollywood Reporter article naming the 15 best movie sequels of the last 20 years, a list on which Doctor Sleep appeared. Flanagan wrote that he "love that it continues to find and build its audience half a decade later." He went on to say that the film is "close to heart."
In Flanagan's post, he mentions Doctor Sleep's "disappointing opening weekend at the box office." The sequel did in fact suffer at the box office during its opening, making only $14.1 million during its first weekend. As a $45 million budget project and a sequel to such an iconic horror film, this initial sum was considered to be fairly low. Overall, Doctor Sleep made just $72.
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