Unkrich conducted most of the interviews (including Shelley Duvall and child actor Danny Lloyd) and paid Rinzler out of pocket to write the book. Rinzler (“The Making of Star Wars” and “The Complete Making of Indiana Jones”), so they joined forces. He pitched his proposal to the Kubrick estate but learned that he had a rival in the late J.W. Unkrich was like a kid in Kubrick’s candy store, and the seeds were planted for this definitive book. Then he visited the Kubrick Archive during the London press tour for “Toy Story 3.”Ĭhoreographer Jamal Sims Helps the Pink Ladies Rule the School on ‘Rise of the Pink Ladies’ But over the years, Unkrich became frustrated at the lack of information - and the surfeit of misinformation - about the making of the film. Not surprisingly, “The Shining” shaped his career when he joined Pixar as an editor on “Toy Story,” flourishing for 25 years as co-director (“Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo”) and director (the Oscar-winning “Toy Story 3” and “Coco”). The Kubrick film’s sense of the uncanny and bravura filmmaking (including the innovative use of Garrett Brown’s Steadicam) possessed Unkrich from his first viewing at an Ohio movie theater and ultimately led to decades of rewatching the story of the Torrance family trapped at the haunted Overlook Hotel. (A smaller standard edition has not yet been announced.) The three-volume collection includes hundreds of never-before-seen production photographs from the Stanley Kubrick Archive in London, interviews with cast and crew, and a deluxe set of facsimile reproductions of ephemera from “the masterpiece of modern horror.” After years of “The Shining” Easter eggs popping up in Pixar films, Unkrich’s fascination with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror cult classic culminates in his monumental making-of book: “Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” (Taschen), currently available in a Collector’s Edition of 1,000 copies ($1,500). “ The Shining” has obsessed Oscar-winning Pixar director Lee Unkrich since he saw it in theaters at the age of 12.

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