Doctor Sleep teaser
Teaser trailer for Doctor Sleep, which, if you don't know is a sequel to The Shining, and IMHO, easily the best thing King has written since Lisey's Story and possibly even since the Great Van Incident.
I confess, I am conflicted about the trailer.
On the one hand, Ewan McGregor is playing one of my all-time favorite King characters.
OTOH, so many references to the Kubrick movie, which I get is what most people think of when they hear The Shining, so okay, stick them in the trailer, but it still makes me nervous.
On the third hand, unexpected diversity in casting! (King still has massive white default issues.)
On the fourth hand, looooooong book made into feature film does not always work well, although in fairness, about a quarter of the book can be summed up as, "And Danny hit rock-bottom, went to AA, and got sober." Still, I wish they were doing a mini-series instead. There's so much there there, and I'd hate to see things like the True Knot not get the time they deserve.
All that said, I'm ready to pitch my tent in line for a ticket. Although I note with amusement that it comes out in November. For years after I became a King fan, he reliably put a book out every year in November, just in time for my birthday. There were even a couple of bonus years where a Dark Tower book came out in December, just in time for Christmas. I still remember spending all of one Christmas day reading The Waste Lands. Those were the days.
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I confess, I am conflicted about the trailer.
On the one hand, Ewan McGregor is playing one of my all-time favorite King characters.
OTOH, so many references to the Kubrick movie, which I get is what most people think of when they hear The Shining, so okay, stick them in the trailer, but it still makes me nervous.
On the third hand, unexpected diversity in casting! (King still has massive white default issues.)
On the fourth hand, looooooong book made into feature film does not always work well, although in fairness, about a quarter of the book can be summed up as, "And Danny hit rock-bottom, went to AA, and got sober." Still, I wish they were doing a mini-series instead. There's so much there there, and I'd hate to see things like the True Knot not get the time they deserve.
All that said, I'm ready to pitch my tent in line for a ticket. Although I note with amusement that it comes out in November. For years after I became a King fan, he reliably put a book out every year in November, just in time for my birthday. There were even a couple of bonus years where a Dark Tower book came out in December, just in time for Christmas. I still remember spending all of one Christmas day reading The Waste Lands. Those were the days.
This entry was originally posted at https://cereta.dreamwidth.org/1192258.html. If you can, please speak there.
have spoken there.