Mike Flanagan has been on a role with Netflix over the past couple years, first with his spin on home invasion horror Hush and again this year with his triumphant Stephen King adaptation Gerald's Game, so it's fitting that the streaming network has stepped in to save his long-languished film Before I Wake.

You may remember the first trailer dropping back in 2015, or perhaps the second one the year after, which landed with a shiny new release date that never came to pass. Starring Kate Bosworth, and Thomas Jane, the film follows a married couple who decide to take in an 8-year-old boy (Jacob Tremblay) whose dreams and nightmares manifest in reality, including visions of their dead son. The film will now debut in the US on Netflix, January 5, 2018.

The paranormal thriller was shot on the heels of Flanagan's breakout hit Occulus and amassed a decent amount of buzz and some positive test screening scores before ending up on the shelf after Relativity’s bankruptcy woes. For a while there, it seemed like the film might never see the light of day.

As Flanagan explained earlier this year,

“It was a great deal [with Relativity], and it was a big fat wide release, and coming off of what they did with Oculus, it was like, ‘This is going to be great.’ And so we sold the movie to Relativity, and we had a release date, and we were all set, and I moved on to the next project… And then things just got weird. Everything kind of stalled. We weren’t getting trailers and posters and materials. It was kind of cagey. We didn’t know it at first, but it was because of the collapse… And so they moved it off the date, and they didn’t really have a good reason, and they didn’t ask us to change anything, which was odd…  And it was testing better than Oculus ever tested. We were in a really good place… We just couldn’t get these materials.”

Turns out they couldn't get the materials because Relativity wasn't paying the bills, and ultimately the film seemed to go down with the ship. International distributors released Before I Wake overseas, making it even more unlikely that the shelved movie would be rescued by another studio. Lucky for fans of Flanagan (or fans of the idea of Jacob Tremblay-led horror film), the director confirms that Netflix, who also distributed the film in U.K., has stepped in and saved the day.

Here’s the official synopsis for Before I Wake:

In this intense and heart pounding supernatural thriller, Jessie (Kate Bosworth) and Mark (Thomas Jane) decide to take in a sweet and loving 8-year-old boy, Cody.  Unbeknownst to them, Cody is terrified of falling asleep. At first, they assume his previous unstable homes caused his aversion to sleep, but soon discover why:  Cody’s dreams manifest in reality as he sleeps.  In one moment they experience the incredible wonder of Cody’s imagination, and in the next, the horrific nature of his night terrors. To save their new family, Jessie and Mark embark on a dangerous hunt to uncover the truth behind Cody’s nightmares.