Ben Stiller in talks for The Shining adaptation

Ben Stiller is reportedly set to play Jack Torrance in a stage adaptation of The Shining. “We can confirm that we are negotiating with Ben Stiller for his role (…) in Simon Stephen’s West End adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Shining,'” a spokesman for Sonia Friedman Productions said in a statement that Variety released made.

The actor and filmmaker would slip into a now iconic role for the theater, played by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s legendary 1980 horror film. The template for the stage version comes from Ivo van Hove and is planned for next year.

Closer to King than Kubrick

According to “Variety”, the negotiations are still at a very early stage, so no further details about the production have been released. However, it has already been communicated that the script will be based much more closely on Stephen King’s version of the novel. The master of horror literature sometimes got angry about the Kubrick version and denied that it breathed the spirit of the original.

The first rehearsals for the “Shining” piece have been announced for January 2023. The busy Stiller recently shot the series “Severance” for Apple TV+. He can currently be seen as an actor in a supporting role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film “Licorice Pizza”.

+++ This article first appeared on rollingstone.de +++

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