hotel that inspired stephen king to write the shining
The Stanley Hotel The Stanley Hotel hosted the horror novelist Stephen King, serving as inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in his 1977 bestseller The Shining and its 1980 film adaption of the same name, as well as the location for the 1997 miniseries. Today, it includes a restaurant, spa, and bed-and-breakfast and provides guided tours which feature the history and alleged paranormal activity of the site.
Danny Lloyd Lloyd's first and best-known role is that of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.[2] He was selected for the role due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods. In the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, they state that Kubrick was able to film all of Lloyd's scenes without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror movie. He was led to believe that he was just acting in a drama film about a family who lives in a hotel.