The Overlook Hotel is the fictional hotel from Stephen King's novel The Shining and its adaptations. The hotel is an amalgamation of parts of real hotels across the United States. Timberline Lodge, a mountain resort in Oregon, was used as the establishing shot in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the book, while The Stanley Hotel, King's inspiration for the Overlook, was used in a TV adaptation for ABC. Kubrick, along with production designer Roy W...
more
The Overlook Hotel is the fictional hotel from Stephen King's novel The Shining and its adaptations. The hotel is an amalgamation of parts of real hotels across the United States. Timberline Lodge, a mountain resort in Oregon, was used as the establishing shot in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the book, while The Stanley Hotel, King's inspiration for the Overlook, was used in a TV adaptation for ABC. Kubrick, along with production designer Roy Walker, used photographs he took of many hotels across the US and England to use as inspiration for hotel in the film. The mockup of the Timberline's rear facade and the hedge maze was built on a back lot in Elstree Studios, England. The real Timberline does not have a maze. All interiors were constructed and shot on the soundstage in England.
The Overlook was considered to be one of the most beautiful resort hotels in the Rockies, if not the world. It had many illustrious guests: Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Astors, Du Ponts, Marilyn Monroe,...
less
