
I gotta pull stuff out.' And we did, we changed it.

He leaned over and he was like 'That's a little brutal isn't it?' I was like 'S*** I gotta go back, I gotta go back and edit this. "It was one of the only times he leaned over to me during the movie was when Tremblay got killed. The onscreen death of Tremblay, however, did not go over as well. Every single thing he did in the seat next to me I was like 'He hates it, he hates it, oh god he hates it.'"įortunately, King's reaction was far more positive than what Mike Flanagan had feared, with the author even doing a fist pump during the scene depicting Jacob Tremblay's character's announcement as being number Nineteen on his baseball team (19 is a recurring and important number throughout his books). "It's a long movie, and it ran about three times as long for me I think as anyone else who's ever watched it. During a recent episode of The Kingcast Podcast, Flanagan revealed the stress of showing King the film in a theater in the famous authors' home of Bangor, Maine.

Doctor Sleep is getting a second wind on digital streaming, where its arrival has exposed the movie to a whole new audience who can appreciate the slow-burn thriller in the comfort of their homes. Filmmaker Mike Flanagan's recent movie adaptation of The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep met with middling box-office returns, even as critics called it one of the best adaptations of a King novel ever made.
