In King’s book and Kubrick’s initial screenplay, Dick Hallorann saves Wendy and Danny from Jack, who gets blown up with the hotel by the boiler he was too busy freaking out to maintain. Imagine the surprise of Scatman Crothers, the actor who played Hallorann, when he learned his character was actually going to be brutally murdered just because Kubrick believed horror movies must contain innocent deaths. Crothers was a fan of the book, so he was as disappointed as anyone with the change, but it could have been worse. Kubrick also considered Wendy killing Jack and then Hallorann becoming possessed.