First Look Photos from Mike Flanagan and Tom Hiddleston's Adaptation of Stephen King's THE LIFE OF CHUCK
Several images have been shared for director Mike Flanagan’s upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck, which stars Tom Hiddleston.
The Life of Chuck is “three separate stories linked to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumor at 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house.”
The film is described as an apocalyptic version of It’s a Wonderful Life, and King, who has seen the film, says that it’s “a happiness machine.”
Hiddlestone tells Vanity Fair: “Well, he’s written something very tender and very wise. I think there is a great wisdom in the soul of the story, which is that it takes courage to hold on to what is good in a world that feels like it’s falling apart.”
When talking about the disaster aspect of the story, Flanagan explains why this one is different: “A disaster movie has people meeting the end while running from tidal waves, and this story has people sitting quietly holding hands looking at the stars.”
Hiddleston went on to say: “The life of every human being is a constellation, as expressed in this film. There are certain moments which will burn most brightly as individual stars.
“Sometimes it feels like the world is going to hell in a handcart, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and it is—but there are moments of deep joy and deep connection.”
When talking about discovering the story, Flanagan said: “There’s no way he wrote this before the world ground to this bizarre halt—but he did. And the feeling of anxiety, and uncertainty, and that everything was falling apart came roaring out at me.
“I wasn’t sure I could finish it. It just felt too close to the anxiety I was feeling. By the end of it, I was in tears, and incredibly uplifted, and convinced I’d read maybe the best thing that he’d written in a decade. I just was floored by the thing.
“So I fired off an email to him right away saying how much I loved the story, how incredible I thought it was, how meaningful, and important, and how it had really tattooed itself on my heart and said, ‘It’s the movie I want to make so that it’ll exist in the world for my kids.’”
The film also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), a school teacher trying to apply logic to the planet’s troubles; Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy) is his ex, a hospital worker determined to save everyone she can; Matthew Lillard (Scream) is a construction worker neighbor who finds zen amid the chaos; and Carl Lumbly (Alias), plays a funeral director who has dedicated his life to easing people through death.
The cast also includes Mark Hamill, David Dastmalchian, Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange), and Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep), as well as Mia Sara, Trinity Bliss, Harvey Guillen, Rahul Kohli, and Heather Langenkamp.
I can’t wait to watch this movie!
