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The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film [7] produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.It is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers.
Room 237 is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Rodney Ascher about interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980) which was adapted from the 1977 novel of the same name by Stephen King. [4] The documentary includes footage from The Shining and other Kubrick films, along with discussions by Kubrick enthusiasts.
The Shining is a 1980 American psychological horror film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Stephen King.The film tells the story of Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic, who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies.
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The film adaptation of Doctor Sleep, released in 2019, was written and directed by Mike Flanagan and served as a direct sequel to the Kubrick film, but it also heavily utilizes and adapts elements of The Shining novel, including Jack's original story being incorporated into the adult Danny's arc, the effects of alcoholism, and the story's ...
The character was portrayed in the 1980 film adaptation The Shining by Danny Lloyd and by Courtland Mead in the 1997 television miniseries The Shining. In 2013, Stephen King released the novel Doctor Sleep , a sequel to the 1977 novel that features an adult Dan Torrance as the protagonist.
John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining (1977). He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 film adaptation, by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries, by Brian Mulligan in the 2016 opera and by Henry Thomas in the 2019 film adaptation of Doctor Sleep.
Lloyd was born in Tremont, Illinois. [1] He was cast as Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, [2] a horror film adaptation of Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name, [3] [4] at the age of six.