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Although he garnered no Academy Award for Stanley Kubrick 's adaptation of Stephen King 's The Shining (1980), his role in the film as writer Jack Torrance remains one of his more significant. He was Kubrick's first choice to play the role, although the book's author, Stephen King, wanted more of an "everyman".
- Meredith Danko
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- Stanley Kubrick had an interest in horror long before he made The Shining. Stanley Kubrick is known for his forays into different genres—and horror was a genre that piqued his interest early on in his career.
- The Shining was inspired by an episode of Omnibus. In 1952, Kubrick worked as the second unit director on one episode of the television series Omnibus.
- Stanley Kubrick didn't even read the screenplay that Stephen King wrote for The Shining. According to David Hughes, one of Kubrick’s biographers, Stephen King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining.
- But Stanley Kubrick still had questions for Stephen King about The Shining. A now-legendary story that King reportedly still tells at some of his book readings goes like this: Stanley Kubrick called him at seven in the morning to say that he believed ghost stories were fundamentally optimistic because the existence of ghosts suggested that humans survived past death.
1 day ago · Stanley Kubrick’s take on The Shining has made way for different interpretations, including one that gives a trippy twist to the Torrance family, the hotel, and the book Jack (Jack Nicholson) was working on. In 1980, Kubrick brought Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining to life, though
Oct 12, 2020 · From how Nicholson got himself into character for his character Jack Torrance, to the deeper stories on the wild hedge maze, to the conspiracy theory the movie inspired, to Stephen King's...
Oct 15, 2024 · Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining ending explained that Jack was connected to The Overlook by showing him in the infamous photo of the guests at the party. Based on Stephen King's novel, The Shining follows Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel ...
- Adrienne Tyler
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Aug 13, 2024 · We break down the ambiguous ending of Stanely Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel, The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson.
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Jun 13, 1980 · The Shining: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence.
