The legendary group photo “proves” that Jack NicholsonJack Torrance never really left Overlook Hotel in ”The brilliant“Has finally been found in real life, 45 years later.
Stank headingS iconic movie Released in 1980, with Nicholson and Shelley Duvall who played two parents moving to a remote resort to take care of the empty property during their season. As the fighting writer Jack sinks into madness, the blood soaked past in the Overlook Hotel infiltrates its weak understanding of the present. The last sequence where the audience sees Jack in one of the old photographs at Overlook is one of the most famous scenes in film.
Now the New York Times reporter Aric Toler has taken the photo exactly where from and who really was in it. Toler wrote in a Thread on x That he worked with retired British Academic Alasdair Spark for almost a year to solve the “Mystery” in the picture and wondered “where did the original photo come from the end of” The Shining “from, and where/when was it captured?”
Toler discovered that the original photo was taken from the BBC Hulton archive, which was later purchased by Getty Images. Murray Close, a photographer who worked with “The Shining”, confirmed to Tolere that this was where the picture was taken from, with Nicholson’s face “pasted” on the body by the famous jazz dance instructor Santos Casani. The photo itself comes from a Valentine’s Dance on February 14, 1921 at the Empress Ballroom in the Royal Palace Hotel in London.
“The Shining” fans can recreate the image partly by visiting Stanley Hotel, the real Colorado resort as inspired Kubrick. The resort was converted to a Supply horror experience 2024 from Peacock and Blumhouse. Producer Jason Blum will gather an ongoing horror cinema exhibition housed at the hotel in collaboration with the Colorado office for film, TV and the media.
The manufacture of “The Shining” on site was also caught in 2024 Documentary “Shine on – the forgotten” brilliant “place”, which is produced in collaboration with Stanley Kubrick Film Archive and The Late Autheur’s Estate.
