A trailer has been released for an upcoming documentary, Shine On--The Forgotten Shining Location, a peek behind the scenes of the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel. IndieWire reported that "few movie sets in Hollywood history have generated more interest than the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.... The hotel sets, hailed by many as some of the defining craftsmanship of Kubrick's filmmaking career, now get their moment in the spotlight." The doc is set to be released on Kubrick's official YouTube channel this Friday, July 26, the late director's birthday.
Produced in partnership with the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive and the director's estate, Shine On--The Forgotten Shining Location is narrated by Martin Sheen, directed by Paul King, and features interviews with the film's art director Les Tomkins, producer Jan Harlan, and Kubrick's daughter Katharina Kubrick. They revisited some of the last remaining studio sets from the movie, which were thought to have been destroyed years ago.
"There have been so many rumors about some of the sets from The Shining still existing at Elstree Studios [near London], but to actually find them and walk around them was like discovering a holy grail of film history," King said.