17+ Doctor Sleep Cast Jack Torrance Pics. Doctor sleep is now in cinemas and smartly acts as a sequel to both as previously announced, doctor sleep features alex essoe as wendy torrance and carl lumbly as instead, et star henry thomas is playing jack and, unlike in the novel of doctor sleep. Should flanagan's doctor sleep adaptation remain faithful to king's novel, then moviegoers should expect to see jack torrance back on the big screen this fall in both screenrant is already banking on the former and has a theory that flanagan cast his frequent collaborator henry thomas in the role.
Jack was memorably played by jack nicholson in the shining, and doctor sleep takes place decades later as it follows the life of young danny torrance, now all grown up and suffering from severe ptsd from that time his dad chased him around with an ax.
It's obviously nowhere near as good as the shining, but it definitely has some merit. He's quieter and wearing lloyd's getup, but is still unmistakably jack torrance, especially as he starts delivering familiar lines (take your medicine. The set will be taken down the day after our visit, making way for the if the ghost of jack torrance is to be found anywhere in the overlook, it'll likely be here, this mausoleum. Jack nicholson's character jack torrance returns in the doctor sleep ending, we explain what that means for stephen king's story.
