Kubrick had read Johnson’s book The Shadow Knows and thought she’d be perfect as a writing partner.
Instead, Kubrick decided to adapt the book himself with novelist Diane Johnson. He is even quoted as calling King’s screenwriting, “ weak”. The exact amount that Kubrick paid for the film rights to King’s novel has not been publicly disclosed, but it has been reported that the sum was somewhere between $500,000 and $1.5 million.Īnd King, keen to have some input into the movie, actually wrote a whole screenplay draft for the film. Kubrick decided to adapt the novel himself How true this story is isn’t known, but it does demonstrate Kubrick’s love of the source material.Įmilio D’Alessandro and Stanley Kubrick 3. He entered Kubrick’s office and found him reading The Shining. During one reading session, he noticed there had been silence for a while. There is also a widely known story that D’Alessandro would know if Kubrick didn’t like a book as she would hear a thud when Kubrick discarded the book against the wall. And he said, ‘This is going to be my next film.'” D’Alessandro describes Kubrick’s reaction to the book as follows: “He loved it. As he read, Kubrick became more and more engrossed in the story, staying up all night to finish it. One of the most commonly cited accounts comes from the book Stanley Kubrick and Me by Kubrick’s assistant, Emilio D’Alessandro.Īccording to D’Alessandro, Kubrick was initially skeptical about the idea of making a horror film, but he was intrigued by the premise of King’s novel. There are several different versions of the story of Kubrick reading The Shining for the first time. Kubrick read it and loved it, calling the book, “one of the most ingenious and exciting stories of the genre I had read.” Stephen King’s novel The Shining had been released in 1977 and quickly became a best-selling classic. Stanley Kubrick on the set of The Shining
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He had grown an interest in ghostly, gothic stories and had told a friend that he wanted to make, “the world’s scariest movie, involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience.” Kubrick, Baxter said, wanted to do something so great that his peers would be blown away. Strangely, Warner Bros had actually given Kubrick the chance to direct The Exorcist and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), but he turned them down. Released in 1973, The Exorcist was directed by William Friedkin and had met with enormous critical and commercial success.
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And a film that exemplified this was The Exorcist. Kubrick’s biographer, John Baxter, said that Kubrick felt that he was being outpaced in certain areas of film, specifically horror. We’re telling the sometimes shocking behind the scenes story below with 25 facts about The Shining.ĭespite having already covered a broad range of genres in his previous 10 movies, The Shining marked Kubrick’s first foray into horror. Featuring an iconic leading performance from 3-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson, the production of the film was huge. Receiving less than a favourable response at the time, it has gone on to be regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. The Shining was released in 1980 as Stanley Kubrick’s 11th feature film as director.
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