20 Things You Didn't Know About The Shining
10. Most Of The Set Burned To The Ground
It's said of The Shining and its original novel by Stephen King that the movie ended in ice, while the book ended in fire. This of course is in reference to the fact that the novel ended with the Overlook Hotel burning to the ground because of Jack's insanity causing him to forget to check the old broken down boiler in the hotel's basement.
While the movie didn't technically end with the whole thing burning down, that didn't stop a nice big fire from breaking out regardless. The fire consumed two entire sound stages and came damn close to burning down a third one, totaling at roughly $2.5 million in damages.
The kicker? No one really knows what caused the fire to begin with, which sounds about right for this surreal as hell production. In fact one of the most famous images associated with the production of this movie is that of the above image, Kubrick laughing hysterically in front of the burnt out wreckage of his movie. Likely because he had read the book before filming and saw this as God's punishment for going so far off the original story.