There was one more element to the deleted ending. Here he’s seen with child actor Danny Lloyd and actress Robin Pappas. The script pages from the deleted epilogue were published two years ago on The Overlook Hotel, an exhaustive fan site run by Pixar director Lee Unkrich (who peppered his film Toy Story 3 with subtle Shining references).īarry Nelson re-appeared as hotel manager Stuart Ullman in the deleted ending. However, the scene – as it reads on paper, anyhow – isn’t exactly a reassuring hug. “He had a soft spot for Wendy and Danny,” Johnson explained in an interview in Kubrick: The Definitive Edition.
The two-minute hospital scene, according to co-screenwriter Diane Johnson, was Kubrick’s way of reassuring the audience that Jack’s wife and son were okay after his murderous rampage. Read on to find out what happened in The Shining’s original ending, and why Kubrick made the last-minute decision to axe it. This week, on a Reddit thread titled “Frames from the hospital scene from the original ending of The Shining,” a fan unearthed three continuity Polaroids that show scenes from the film’s deleted epilogue. When The Shining premiered in theaters in 1980, those two iconic shots bookended an additional scene, of Wendy and Danny recuperating in the hospital. It’s an indelible set of images – but it wasn’t the ending that director Kubrick first envisioned.
Then the camera moves to a vintage photograph on the wall of The Overlook Hotel, which inexplicably includes Jack among the 1920s revelers. In the final shots of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, the audience sees the corpse of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) frozen to death in the hedge maze where he tried to kill his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd). Jack Nicholson in ‘The Shining’ (Everett)
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