First Page Of Kings THE SHINING Script

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THE SHINING -- There's the Kubrick version -- there's the Stephen King mini-series version -- there are  endless parodies, but did you know that King himself wrote an early script for a movie version of The Shining that Kubrick chose not to use.

Mike Bracken at www.movies.com posted:

What’s interesting is that King wrote his own draft of the script back in the '80s, and while we’ve never read the whole thing, we can share the first page with you. How different might The Shining have been if they used King’s script? Would it have been better? 

We’ll never know the answers definitively – however, we can say that we think Kubrick’s opening sequence featuring the drive up through the mountains to the Overlook is better than King’s opening here. We can also say that we think Kubrick’s film’s climax (which differs radically from the novel) is significantly better than the ending to King’s book.

Wait a minute . . . what did he say?  The Kubrick end is better than King's novel?  More climatic?  Did he miss the part where the thing BLOWS UP! ?  And Wendy is racing against time. . . and. . . and. . . oh well, maybe some people just need to read with more intensity.