When Bruce Greenwood last worked with writer/director Mike Flanagan, on Netflix's Stephen King adaptation Gerald's Game, he played the title character, dying during a kinky sex game. We're curious to learn what fate might befall him as he reunites with Flanagan for another King-based film, this time Doctor Sleep.
Published by King in 2013 as an official follow-up to The Shining, Sleep's story catches up with Danny Torrance, burdened with the trauma of his younger days and showing worrying signs of his father's violent moods. With a lingering rage and a drinking problem that dulls his pain as well as his supernatural shining powers, he finds they return when he opts to go sober and uses his gifts to help those dying at a local hospice.
After forming a psychic connection with a young girl who boasts similar abilities, he discovers a scary group targeting those who have the powers, improving their own by inhaling the "steam" that comes off people with the shine during painful deaths.
Ewan McGregor is playing Danny, with Kyliegh Curran as Abra Stone, the young woman who also possess the shine. Greenwood, whose character is still a mystery, joins a cast that also includes Rebecca Ferguson, Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon and Alex Essoe.
Doctor Sleep will be out via Warner Bros. in 2020. Greenwood is part of the cast for Facebook Watch series Sorry For Your Loss.
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