“To the 5-year-old brain, it feels like months we worked on that.” “There’s a picture of me and my stand-in and Leon working on walking backwards in my footprints for when Danny tricks Jack in the maze,” Lloyd says.
“I would show them photos, and that’s when the stories just started flowing.” A deleted shot of Wendy Torrance taking Polaroids of Danny in the center of the hedge maze.įor Dan Lloyd, who was just 4 when he auditioned for the role of Danny Torrance, the book crystallized memories he wasn’t sure actually occurred. “Most people have their needle-drop sound bites and stories that they’ve told over the years,” Unkrich says.
The result is a road map through the mazelike history of one of the most closely scrutinized movies of all time. Rinzler to collect hundreds of photographs, production details and interviews with virtually every available cast and crew member. But in today’s world of streaming and heavy focus on opening weekends, such a box office run is very much a thing of the past.Armed with unfettered access to Kubrick’s archives, Unkrich worked with the late J.W. The film opened to weak numbers as audiences flocked to another classic film, “The Empire Strikes Back.”īut as time went on and the public began to embrace both the mysterious nature of the film and Nicholson’s iconic performance, “The Shining” went on to turn a profit for Warner Bros. But at the time of its release, audiences were frustrated by the lack of a neat ending. That sense of chilling ambiguity about the evil nature of the hotel is a major reason why “The Shining” is considered today to be one of the greatest horror movies ever made. So, according to Kubrick, Jack Torrance is the reincarnation of a guest at the Overlook Hotel from decades ago, as was Charles Grady, the previous caretaker whom Jack learned had become bloodthirsty while watching the hotel the previous summer. One popular theory is that the photo shows the picture of all the victims that the curse of the Overlook Hotel has claimed over the years.īut Kubrick himself revealed his own intentions behind the photo, saying in an interview with French film critic Michel Ciment at the time of the film’s release that the photo “suggests the reincarnation of Jack.” Over the past four decades, the photo has captured the imagination of horror fans and spawned theories about what the photo could mean.
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