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Danny Torrance may be an adult, but he still has horrific flashbacks from his past in Doctor Sleep. Ewan McGregor, who plays the grown-up version of Torrance, recently explained why his character is still traumatized by events from The Shining.
“Dan Torrance’s philosophy early on in the story is not to use the shining,” McGregor told Entertainment Weekly in an interview. “He’s drunk to suppress the horrible visitations, the spirits that are from the Overlook Hotel.”
Doctor Sleep, which is hitting theaters next month, continues Torrance’s story years after The Shining. In the film, Torrance meets a young girl who also possesses “the shining,” and warns him about otherworldly beings that want to gain their psychic abilities. Torrance, who receives frequent visitors from the grave and struggles with alcoholism, is not sure how to fight back.
“‘The shining’ refers to psychic ability, the people who actually affect the physical world with their thoughts, read the minds of others,” Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan explained. “Danny is so traumatized by what he’s been through, he has no idea how to deal with this.”
Still shook from his childhood, Torrance is forced to confront the one place he never wanted to go back to: the Overlook Hotel. When him and the young girl head back to the scary site, they have no idea what they’re in for, considering the lodge’s ghosts and the creepy figures above may team up to kill them.
Stephen King believes that Torrance needed to have one more showdown with The Overlook Hotel’s spirits and other paranormal entities.
“I always wondered what happened to Danny [Torrance] when he grew up,” King said. “And I felt that I had a story to tell.”
Doctor Sleep, which also stars Kyliegh Curran and Rebecca Ferguson, premieres in theaters on November 8.
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