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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Doctor Sleep (2019), starring Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis, and Zahn McClarnon. The two releases will be available for purchase on February 4.
Studio description: Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra (Kyliegh Curran), a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the "shine." Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.
Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abra's innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before—at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.
The supernatural thriller "Doctor Sleep" stars Ewan McGregor ("Star Wars: Episodes I, II & III," "Trainspotting") as Dan Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson (the "Mission: Impossible" films, "The Greatest Showman") as Rose the Hat and Kyliegh Curran ("I Can I Will I Did"), in her major feature film debut, as Abra. The main ensemble cast includes Carl Lumbly (TV's "Alias," "A Cure for Wellness"), Zahn McClarnon ("Strike One," TV's "Into the West"), Emily Alyn Lind (TV's "Revenge," "Enter the Void"), Bruce Greenwood ("Star Trek," "I, Robot"), Jocelin Donahue ("The House of the Devil," "Insidious: Chapter 2"), Alex Essoe ("Starry Eyes," "House of Lies") and Cliff Curtis ("Sunshine," "The Dark Horse").
Trevor Macy and Jon Berg produced the film, with Roy Lee, Scott Lumpkin, Akiva Goldsman and Kevin McCormick serving as executive producers.
Flanagan's behind-the-scenes creative team was led by director of photography Michael Fimognari ("The Haunting of Hill House"), production designer Maher Ahmad ("Get Hard") and costume designer Terry Anderson ("Den of Thieves"). The music score was composed by The Newton Brothers ("The Haunting of Hill House").
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DIRECTOR'S CUT OF THE FILM - featuring nearly 30 minutes of new, alternate and extended scenes, selected by director Mike Flanagan, not seen in theaters.
DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
DOLBY ATRMOS AUDIO TRACK
Return to the Overlook
The Making of Doctor Sleep: A New Vision
From Shining to Sleep
Optional English SDH, Spanish, French, and Portuguese subtitles for the main feature
^ Got it on Pre-Order from Amazon!!! Can't wait!!!!
Missed this in the theater but I will be getting this for sure.
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Flanagan reveals:
I’m really excited that WB let me create this cut, much less release it. They really supported it – to the point that they made sure all of the new material with VFX was fully finished, additional score was composed and orchestrated just for this cut, and we did a full mix as well. They really let us do this right – it’s a finished, complete, fully polished new cut of the movie. Nothing in it is temp.
We shot a LOT of material for this movie, and I always knew it wouldn’t all fit. I was reticent to call this a “Director’s Cut” at first, as I absolutely love and stand by the cut I made for our theatrical release. But there was stuff I actively decided to remove from that cut that I missed, and that I would think about even weeks after the fact. I was elated when Warner Bros. expressed interest in preserving that cut for home video.
There is new material throughout the whole film. Some of it is brand new stuff that was never included in the theatrical cut, and there’s also a handful of extended (or altered) scenes as well. There was never any intention to release this cut theatrically, we always knew it was too long. But we worked on it alongside the theatrical cut throughout post, and it made it a lot easier to make hard decisions in the edit, knowing that some day this cut might see the light of day.
There are some big new scenes, for sure. I don’t want to spoil any of that, but I can say that there is new material throughout (including in the final act at the Overlook). Some of my favorite stuff involved Young Danny and Wendy (there’s some terrific material with Alex Essoe that I’m thrilled is restored here), and will be familiar to fans of the book. There’s also a fair amount of new stuff involving young Abra in the film’s first act, learning about her shine, and how it affects her parents.
And there are some surprises I definitely won’t spoil here.
All in all, I think this cut is more literary than the theatrical cut. It very much feels like reading a novel… and is even broken into chapters, which gave this cut a very fun structure.
I’m very proud of it and so grateful that it’ll be available to fans.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
Like this movie came and went without really making much of a dent.
Was a great movie
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Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
In theory, the director's cut is now available, digitally !
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I can't wait to pick up the 4K release for this. I'm even more excited for the directors cut now, because I somehow missed they're structuring it to be more like the book. Expanded and tweaked scenes, and they're even breaking it up into "chapters".
https://collider.com/doctor-sleep-di...04H-UmDplEmHKM
Edit: Didn't notice Bev Vincent beat me to the punch, lol. Hopefully someone is able to check it out digitally
Don't know how relevant this is but...
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I only saw Doctor Sleep around a week ago, basically for reasons similar to this:
I’d read DS when it came out but wanted to re-read it before watching the film, and wanted to re-read The Shining (my CD edition) before that.
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…which made me want to barf (I resent Towering up everything).
I would understand if some viewers felt that the final scenes were too much like The Shining’s Greatest Hits, but overall I think it worked.
It was good to see elements of the end of The Shining novel used to wrap up Doctor Sleep.
The few faults I found in DS didn't bother me much at all, especially with the recollection of the It Chapter 2 disaster still fresh in my mind.
The director’s cut sounds nice.
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The DS film was handicapped from the git go by that (IMHO) POS Kubrik made. Given that starting point I thought they did a fairly good job with the film. I'm also in the minority of loving the DS book so some of the missing elements bothered me a bit but, not nearly as much as what, Kubrik did to a classic book!!!
I too am looking forward to the Director's cut.
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63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Another thing about the DS film:
It seems that every time a movie casts a relatively unknown young person in a prominent role, they try to plant the buzz that he/she really does a remarkable job etc., but in the end it's just a regular kid doing an ordinary job in an ordinary role. In this case, I was actually impressed by Kyliegh Curran (Abra) - she appropriately seemed like a nice, ordinary young girl most of the time, but had an edge when Abra was in hostile mode.
You can't be aloof until you advertise.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Mike Flanagan wrote a bit about the film on his tumblr. It's worth reading imo.
https://www.tumblr.com/flanaganfilm/...-im-excited-to
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