Stephen King tends to support many of the movies and TV series adapted from his novels and short stories, with the notable exception of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” The author has long taken issue with the way Kubrick’s classic horror film re-works his book — enough so that it inspired him to write and produce a not-so-beloved miniseries adaptation of “The Shining” in the late 1990s.Prominent among the things King has criticized Kubrick’s movie for is its casting of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, the struggling writer who accepts a job as the off-season caretaker at the haunted Overlook Hotel, only to try to kill his…The post How Robin Williams Nearly Ended Up in The Shining appeared first on /Film.
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