![]() ![]() The basics of the story are the same: the Torrance family agrees to look after the Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado after it closes for the season and gets snowed in, leaving them completely isolated. ![]() And while I won’t be covering all the differences (that would be exhausting), I will be covering the big ones. We’ll get into the nitty gritty of why, but for now let’s just say that Kubrick’s vision took some serious departures from the source material. Over the years, King has been very outspoken about how much he hates Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. You might think Stephen King would be thrilled that one of his books inspired such a famous movie, but you would be wrong. And while it wasn’t initially a hit with either audiences or critics, the film version of The Shining evolved over time into a bona fide classic. ![]() ![]() It’s no surprise, then, that it took a mere three years for an adaptation of The Shining to make its way into theaters from celebrated director Stanley Kubrick. His debut, Carrie, was such a smash hit that there was an insatiable hunger for King’s work on both the page and the screen. The Shining, released in 1977, was Stephen King’s third full-length novel. ![]()
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