The film was hell to be part of, the star, who has had mental health problems in recent times, later acknowledged. Image credits: KubrickShining. The roles dried up as he hit puberty. When the material is as unusual as The Shining dealing with ghosts and spirits, the actor has to be larger than life, he suggested. This is the War Room!) and a uniformly brilliant cast, allied to Kubricks fearless approach throughout, climaxing in the montage of mushroom clouds to the strains of Well Meet Again, Dr Strangelove is peak Kubrick, finding humour in the most chilling of subject matters. That popularity must be dizzying for em., So, no regrets? We didnt know what we were getting into, says Lloyd. In addition to improvising one of the most famous lines of the film, Nicholson actually wrote an entire scene. His small cameo in the sequel to The Shining, directed by Mike Flanagan, was as a spectator at a baseball game who observes that Bradley (played by Jacob Tremblay) appears to be able to read the pitcher's mind. King turned his novel into a movie script, but Kubrick did not want to read it, according to the director's biographer, David Hughes. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. This Shining, which turns 40 tomorrow, is one of Kubricks greatest films. I started the site purely for selfish reasons," Unkrich told Vulture in 2013. Perhaps only Kubrick would dare make a film about nuclear Armageddon as the Cold War was intensifying and so soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, as he speculates on the consequences of the wrong person with their finger on the trigger. Kubrick was a perfectionist, forcing actors to shoot scenes hundreds of times. I don't think there's any basis to any of it really," he told The Guardian when asked about the various fan theories. That is not the case with The Shining. Vitali remembers that Kubrick had wanted to make a serious horror movie in the psychological sense rather than a vicious, horrible, blood-filled [one]. Writer and director Mike Flanagan found Lloyd on Twitter and asked him if he'd make a cameo in the film, as reported by via Variety. He wasn't even allowed to watch the movie when it was released. There was take after take after take and his breath was as fresh at the end of the day at the beginning. Towards the end of production, the sets at Elstree burnt down. In photos, he looks like your average 45-year-old guy, clean cut with a neatly trimmed beard. Kubrick took the mini-disaster in his stride. So much so that King eventually wrote a sequel, 2013s Doctor Sleep. Another claims that the film is truly about the genocide of Native Americans.