![]() ![]() ![]() I just wanted to do my job."Įxplaining the changes to the ending, screenwriter Diane Johnson told Entertainment Weekly in 2017, "Kubrick really thought somebody should get killed - because it was a horror movie. In Kings novel, the Overlook Hotels seduction of Jack Torrance is rooted in the nebbishy failed writers frustrated desire to be extraordinary, larger than life. I still don't know why Stanley changed the story. Kubrick shot things all kinds of ways, but he never shot a version of the ending like in his script or the book. In fact, when I first arrived in London … Jack Nicholson introduced me to his friends and said, 'My man's the hero of the movie.' I just don't understand what happened. "The strange thing is that even Stanley's screenplay has Hallorann saving them. I just wish that they had kept the original ending," Crothers told James H. He even helps raise and nurture Danny in the future, but in the movie, he is killed. In the original script and in the novel, the character Hallorann has the "shining" and saves Danny and Wendy. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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