Ewan McGregor is having a great year.
First, he’s starring in the titular role of Walt Disney’s upcoming live-action Winnie the Pooh movie Christopher Robin. Then Disney announced an upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi movie, which is potentially looking at McGregor to reprise his popular role. Now he’s being tapped to play the lead in the upcoming sequel to Stephen King’s horror saga, The Shining.
Indiewire first broke the news that McGregor officially signed on for the role of Danny Torrence in Doctor Sleep, which shows what happens to an older Danny and his mother after his father Jack (Jack Nicholson) goes mad in The Shining. Details of the film are still being kept under wraps, however much of it is expected to loosely follow the events of the book which it is based on. It’s also going to be written and directed by horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan, who gained notoriety years earlier for directing the slasher film Hush and Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game.
Ewan McGregor? Stephen King? The Shining? Yes please, sign me up for all of it. Stephen King has had no shortage of success in the film industry, his most successful adaptations including The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Mist, Carrie, and more recently It. Hearing that we’re going to get more Stephen King horror goodness is exciting enough on its own. The fact that an actor as talented as McGregor is going to be on board with it is downright heart-stopping.
What do you guys think? Are you excited that McGregor is going to be entering the Stephen King universe, or do you wish they’d leave King’s classics alone? Comment below, let me know.
– David Dunn
SOURCE: IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly
DAVID DUNN 