Rebecca Ferguson’s 152-Minute Stephen King Sleeper Hit Officially Finds New Life

What a year it’s been for Rebecca Ferguson, and to top it all off, one of the most underrated projects of her career is finding a second wind on streaming. To kick off 2026, Ferguson starred opposite Chris Pratt in the Amazon MGM sci-fi thriller, Mercy, which bombed at the box office before going on to become one of the biggest movies of the year on Prime Video. Ferguson also headlined one of the biggest sci-fi shows of the summer in Silo on Apple TV, and she’s returning to her role as Juliette in the fourth and final season of the show next summer. Ferguson will also reprise her role as Lady Jessica later this year in Dune: Part Three, but she has confirmed that she will only have one scene in the franchise-capping sci-fi threequel.

Rebecca Ferguson has starred in enough movies to this point in her career that it’s only natural for some to have been largely forgotten to the scope of time. One of said projects that fans don’t often remember is Doctor Sleep, the legacy sequel to The Shining starring Ferguson as the featured villain, Rose the Hat. Ewan McGregor, best known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, also has a key role in Doctor Sleep, along with Cliff Curtis and Zahn McClarnon. Based on the novel by Stephen King, Doctor Sleep was written and directed by Mike Flanagan, who is a frequent adapter of King’s work. Seven years after Doctor Sleep hit theaters, the film is still not available to watch on streaming, but fans are checking it out in droves on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV.

What Is ‘Doctor Sleep’ About?

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The official synopsis for Doctor Sleep, which holds scores of 79% from critics and 89% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Struggling with alcoholism, Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift of the 'shine.' Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.” Doctor Sleep may be a sequel to The Shining, but it certainly isn’t remembered in the same light as the 1980 horror classic directed by Stanley Kubrick.