Doctor Sleep arrived in theaters earlier this month, giving Stephen King fans a whole new nightmare on the big screen. The movie is based on the writer’s sequel to The Shining, his seminal haunted house novel that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s equally beloved horror movie. For the excellent Doctor Sleep, which fuses both the worlds of King’s novels and Kubrick’s movie, it was Gerald’s Game director Mike Flanagan in the director’s chair.

With two critically-acclaimed King movies now under his belt, Flanagan is quickly becoming the go-to director to bring the horror master’s vision to the big screen. Speaking to the director in October right before the worldwide release of the movie, Flanagan told us that he’d love to work on a third movie set in the world of The Shining, especially since Doctor Sleep ends with young Abra (Kyliegh Curran) starting to really embrace her powers — with a little help from Ewan McGregor’s Dan Torrance.

“Absolutely. I would love it,” Flanagan says of potentially directing an Abra movie. “And when I met Stephen King, I asked him like, is there more? Do you have anything else for Abra Stone? Because my God, she’s so great. And he left it open. He said, you know, he hadn’t thought about it before, but it was people asking questions like that that made him write Doctor Sleep. He started to really think about Dan.”

Thanks to Doctor Sleep, this particular corner of the King universe has become a bit of a generational story: after the events at the Overlook Hotel, Dick Hallorann mentored Danny, who then grew up and mentored Abra in how to use the Shining. Dick himself was mentored and taught about his powers at a young age by his grandmother. It wouldn’t be out of left field for a third story to focus on an older Abra teaching/helping someone else in need.