fanfiction theories on the shining prequel - the overlook - script and screenplay - OVERLOOK: BEFORE THE PLAY
What we do know from the film/novel The Overlook’s haunted past & the 1921 photo In the film The Shining, the final shot shows a photograph captioned “Overlook Hotel, July 4th Ball, 1921.” In that photo the character Jack Nicholson (as Jack Torrance) appears front-and-centre. The photograph is never fully explained in the film; the director Stanley Kubrick said it “suggests the reincarnation of Jack.” According to lore from the novel/Stephen King wiki, the Overlook (in the King mythos) had many dark events in its past (suicides, gangster hits, suspicious ownership changes) though details are sketchy. In the novel version of The Shining there was a deleted prologue titled “Before the Play” that touched on earlier events in the Overlook’s history (though again not very detailed). Wikipedia +1 What the film presents (in brief) Jack Torrance is hired as winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. The hotel’s past includes a previous caretaker...