![]() The writer detested the Kubrick adaptation, which junked most of his plot in favour of atmosphere, and sanctioned a TV movie remake, which did indeed use the Stanley. This is the hotel in which King stayed in 1973, and which inspired the original story. To complicate matters further, it’s sometimes claimed that the film was made at the Stanley Hotel, 333 East Wonderview Avenue, Estes Park in Colorado. The interior sets were partly based, not on the Timberline, but on the Ahwahnee Hotel, in Yosemite National Park, California. ![]() There is no maze at the Timberline – this was built at the old MGM Borehamwood Studios, also in Hertfordshire. Stanley Kubrick’s very free adaptation of the Stephen King novel sees blocked writer Jack Torrance ( Jack Nicholson) going barmy in a creepy snowbound hotel.Īlthough the film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, where the hotel interior was constructed, the exterior of the ‘Overlook Hotel’ is the Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood in the Hood River area of Northern Oregon.īuilt during the Depression, it’s 45 miles east of Portland, just east of Zig Zag on Route 26. ![]()
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