![]() ![]() King would go on to oversee a two-part TV adaptation of The Shining in which Stephen Weber played Jack Torrance. In the sense that when you met him, and when you talked to him, he was able to interact in a perfectly normal way but you never felt like he was all the way there. ![]() Serving as posthumous antagonists of The Shining, 1980 film adaptation of The Shining, and its sequel Doctor Sleep, and its 2019 film adaptation of the same name. I think he did some terrific things but, boy, he was a really insular man. The Grady sisters are posthumous characters of the Stephen King multiverse. Strangelove, for one and Paths of Glory, for another. He's made some of the movies that mean a lot to me, Dr. But I met Kubrick and there's no question he's a terrifically smart guy. ![]() The other real difference is at the end of my book the hotel blows up, and at the end of Kubrick's movie the hotel freezes. In the movie, there's no tragedy because there's no real change. ![]() In the book, he's a guy who's struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. Ullman, the manager of the hotel, and you know, then, he's crazy as a shit house rat. "When we first see Jack Nicholson, he's in the office of Mr. "I feel the same because the character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. ![]()
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