Two horror gurus unite for the upcoming movie, The Life Of Chuck, Mike Flanagan’s (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher. The Haunting of Bly Manor, Doctor Sleep) adaptation of Stephen King’s novella.
Watch the first trailer here…
We won’t give too much of the plot away (trust us, you want to go into this movie knowing as litle as possible!), though the official synopsis is that it s a ‘life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz’.
Adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan, The Life Of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange), Karen Gillian (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Mark Hamill (The Wild Robot), alongside an ensemble cast including Jacob Tremblay (Room), Matthew Lillard (Five Nights at Freddy’s), Mia Sara (Legend) and Nick Offerman (The Last Of Us).
‘The Life of Chuck’ story was originally part of If It Bleeds, a collection of four previously unpublished novellas by King, which also included ‘If It Bleeds’, ‘Rat’ and another of King’s adapted works, ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’.
“Not a lot of people are familiar with the short story,” Flanagan said of The Life Of Chuck at New York Comic-Con last year. “It came out in If It Bleeds and was not one of the more celebrated stories that he wrote, but] it’s one of my favorite things he’s ever written.
“I finished the story crying and feeling like I wanted this movie to exist in the world for my kids. We got to make the movie that we wanted and we got to make it completely independently. We were pretty certain a studio would never make the movie, and we had no idea anyone would ever buy the movie and put it out.
“Of the feature films I’ve gotten to work on in my career, it’s my favorite by a lot. But it is very different. It’s not at all horror. It’s the kind of softest, gooey, most humanist side of Stephen King and of me too. I just love it, please check it out when you can. It’s pretty fun.”
The Life Of Chuck will be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 22 August 2025.
