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  1. people (people): Doctor Sleep → Mike Flanagan. Mike Flanagan directed Doctor Sleep, a stylistic step forward from Kubrick.
    “Mike Flanagan's sequel adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone.
    “Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Doctor Sleep → Rebecca Ferguson. Rebecca Ferguson's villain performance supercharges the movie.
    “an insane Rebecca Ferguson performance as the villain of the movie that she just walks away with the movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Sean disliked it first, then saw the director's cut and decided it is one of his favorite movies of the decade.
    “this is one of my favorite movies the last 10 years.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:50:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Mike Flanagan → Doctor Sleep. Flanagan has Doctor Sleep, the Shining sequel, coming.
    “who has Dr. Sleet, the shining sequel coming later”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:43 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Doctor Sleep → Midsommar. Doctor Sleep, not yet out, is the biggest contender against Midsommar for Sean's 2019 pick.
    “I would say that's probably the biggest contender against Midsommar for me.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:47:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
    “You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (Netflix hit gave Flanagan the job): The Haunting of Hill House → Doctor Sleep. The speakers guess the hit Netflix King adaptation and Hill House, after Oculus and Ouija, are why Flanagan got Doctor Sleep.
    “And then I think it really is the Geralds game thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:13:27 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (adaptation): Doctor Sleep (King's novel) → Doctor Sleep. The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned.
    “Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (restored ending): The Shining (King's novel) → Doctor Sleep. Flanagan pitched going back to the Overlook as a means to restore the burn-down ending of King's book, which won King over.
    “he said, I'm going to go back to the Overlook, but as means to an end to restore your ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:16:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. people (contrast (digital vs actors)): Doctor Sleep → The Irishman. The two arrived the same month, one casting new actors for Nicholson and company, the other de-aging the originals.
    “This movie comes out right around the same time as the Irishman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (no CGI Nicholson): Mike Flanagan → Doctor Sleep. Flanagan reportedly considered a CGI Jack Nicholson and chose four new actors instead.
    “do we make like a CGI Jack Nicholson?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. programming (trauma horror pairing): Doctor Sleep → Smile. Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror.
    “smile is literally about trauma”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. theme (shine as comparison): The Glass trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, Glass) → Doctor Sleep. The film's treatment of the shine resembles the Glass trilogy, but Doctor Sleep avoids saying trauma causes the powers.
    “There is this sort of like Shyamalan glass trilogy thing. to the way this movie represents the shine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:32:36 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. craft (visual echo): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. The hospice office is composed like the Overlook interview scene, reversed so the boss helps instead of dooms.
    “It's composed like the exact same way as that 1st interview sequence in the original film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:59:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. career (competing project): Warner Brothers Overlook Hotel prequel (unmade) → Doctor Sleep. Warner Brothers spent about ten years trying to build something in the Shining universe, including a prequel Mark Romanek was to direct.
    “Warner Brothers was also trying for a very long time to make an Overlook Hotel prequel, which Mark Romantic was supposed to direct at some”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:03:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Warner Brothers had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel while they believed the film would be a four-quadrant hit.
    “they had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. people (cameo link): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. The boy who played Danny in The Shining appears as a parent on the sideline in the baseball scene.
    “That is the kid who plays Danny in the original Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Doctor Sleep: In the baseball scene a sideline parent is the actor who played Danny in The Shining, now a school teacher who was excited to do it.
    “He's a school teacher.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. lineage (legacy sequel (contrast)): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Doctor Sleep. Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned.
    “Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Shot in Atlanta on a three month schedule, with no Kubrickian nonsense.
    “Three month shoot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:11:58 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. programming (sequel to a Kubrick film (pairing)): 2010 → Doctor Sleep. The Patreon feed also covered 2010, another sequel to a Kubrick movie that avoids aping his style.
    “Another example of how dare you make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (recreated sets): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. Flanagan rebuilds the Overlook's art direction detail for detail without trying to ape Kubrick's style.
    “Every typewriter is the same color”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (Overlook recreated): Ready Player One → Doctor Sleep. Ready Player One rebuilt the hotel as a deliberate CGI recreation the year before; Doctor Sleep puts live actors into it.
    “Ready Player one has this whole sequence where it is truly just a CGI recreation of the hotel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:15:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. craft (score reused): Wendy Carlos → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep uses the Wendy Carlos Shining score and holds off on it for a long time.
    “Even just the way they use the Wendy Carlos score and hold off on it for a long time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
    “Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. people (cameo): Danny Lloyd → Doctor Sleep. Danny Lloyd makes a cameo in Doctor Sleep.
    “He makes a cameo in Dr. Sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:00:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. lineage (homage): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
    “it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
    “There's also Doctor Sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. career (career): Rebecca Ferguson → Doctor Sleep. Ferguson's work outside M:I includes Doctor Sleep.
    “I haven't seen her in anything besides the doctor's sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:45:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. verdict (verdict): Rebecca Ferguson → Doctor Sleep. Chaos pick for Best Supporting Actress: Ferguson as the Hat.
    “My 4th nominee for best supporting actress is Rebecca Ferguson as the hat in Dr. Sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:13:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. industry (industry): Doctor Sleep → Doctor Sleep. The three-hour director's cut just dropped and could be amazing.
    “You know, the 3 hour director's cut just dropped.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:13:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  33. contrast (contrast): Doctor Sleep → Roman J. Israel, Esq.. A film Griffin half-liked whose director's cut may turn out to be amazing, like Roman J. Israel (named as a past analog).
    “That's the Roman J Israel this year where I'm like, that movie that I kind of liked but had problems with might be amazing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:13:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. lineage (lineage): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
    “It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)