There are several impossible shots in the film. It has been noticed that from scene to scene the layout of the Overlook changes. The elevators and Lobby of both are also nearly identical.

The film's Colorado Lounge is a near copy of the Grand Lounge at Ahwahnee. The interiors of the Overlook are based heavily on the Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite. In the film The Shining, the Overlook Hotel's exterior is represented by Timberline Lodge at Mt. Later on, in 1982, his body was found inside the ruins of the hotel, no one knowing how it was possible. Pomeroy disappeared during the assignment. Years later, Andrew Pomeroy, an amateur painter, was employed by a magazine to sketch the ruins of the hotel. Jack’s wife Wendy, his son Danny and Dick Hallorann were the only three survivors. In the novel, The Shining, the Overlook was destroyed when the hotel's winter caretaker, Jack Torrance, allowed the outmoded boiler to go untended until it exploded, burning the Overlook to the ground. It was a secluded hotel located in the Rocky Mountains during its history, it was the site of many unsavoury activities, including suicides, gangland hits, and many suspicious changes of ownership, yet the hotel remained a luxurious destination known for its sumptuous grounds and spectacular mountain view. It is also a mentioned in Misery, Castle Rock TV Series, and The Stand miniseries. It serves as the main antagonist of the novel The Shining, it's 1980 film adaptation, it's 1997 miniseries, one of the two posthumous overarching antagonists (alongside Jack Torrance) of it's sequel Doctor Sleep, the overarching antagonist of it's 2019 film adaptation of the same name, and a minor antagonist of Billy Summers. The Overlook Hotel is a major recurring antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse. Kubrick filmed the exteriors at Timberline Lodge in Oregon. The Overlook in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The actual hotel was used in the 1997 television miniseries. The real hotel in Colorado that inspired King to write the novel.

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