The original hotel used in the classic Stanley Kubrick movie The Shining is set to be turned, partially, into a museum. The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which doubled up as the Overlook hotel in the Jack Nicholson-led horror movie that was based on the novel by Stephen King, will open a museum and film center.
Costing a reported $24 million, the Stanley, which already hosts the annual Stanley Kubrick Film Festival, will house a museum, film archive and film production studio.
The founding board will include Elijah Wood, Simon Pegg, Mick Garris and George A. Romero. Wood spoke with the Denver Business Journal about the plans.
“I would love to have a home for which we could constantly come year-round and celebrate with other fans from around the world. There’s really no better place for there to be a permanent home for the celebration of horror as an art form than the Stanley Hotel. It was practically built for it.”
This is great news!
