If James L. Brooks Had Made "The Shining"

Brilliant, just brilliant. Click here.

(Thanks to Chris, who sent this to us via Waxy)

**UPDATE**
The New York Times has a story on the creator of Shining, the trailer above that reimagines the Stanley Kubrick/Stephen King frightfest as a heart-warming date flick. Turns out the spoof is the work of Robert Ryang, a 25-year-old assistant film editor in Manhattan. Ryang had sent a few friends the link to his little-seen blog so that they could check out the ersatz trailer he pieced together to win a local contest.

A few days later, The Times reports:

"Mr. Ryang said ... his secret site got 12,000 hits. By Thursday the numbers were even higher, his film was being downloaded and linked to on countless other sites, it had cracked the top 10 most popular spoofs on www.ifilm.com, and a vice president at a major Hollywood studio had called up his office, scouting for new talent.

"'He said it’s being circulated everywhere in the film community,' Mr. Ryang said of the executive, not wanting to name the man for fear of alienating him. '

'He wanted to know who I was, and if I had any creative ideas. I told him I’d put together a reel.'”