Karen Gillan Cried For Days After Watching Mike Flanagan's Adaptation of Stephen King's THE LIFE OF CHUCK
Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House) has directed a film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck. He’s currently in post-production on the project, and Karen Gillan, one of the stars of the movie, saw a rough cut of it, and it had her “crying for days.”
During a recent interview with GamesRadar, Gillan, who previously worked with Flanagan on Oculus said: "You know what, it didn’t feel that different. I was going into it like, ‘OK, how has he changed? He’s done so many movies. [It] felt the same! We were back in Alabama like we’d never left. If there was any difference, I suppose he just felt more… I mean, he was relaxed on the first one, but maybe he wasn’t, he was just pretending to be relaxed. But no, he was just the same Mike Flanagan, and brilliant and the movie is absolutely incredible. I saw a not-finished version of it, and literally didn’t stop crying for days. In a good way."
Gilln continued: "It’s a cathartic experience. It’s someone dealing with the end of their life, and it’s told in a very imaginative way, and it’s just beautiful. It’s a celebration of life, I suppose. I think we could all do with a bit of that."
The movie is based on the short story from King’s 2020 anthology If It Bleeds, “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.”
According to the production, the project will draw tonally from Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
The movie also stars Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange), and Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep), Jacob Tremblay, Mia Sara, Matthew Lillard, Trinity Bliss, Harvey Guillen, Rahul Kohli, David Dastmalchian, and Heather Langenkamp.
I’m incredibly excited about seeing how this movie turned out! This is such a great story and I have no doubt that Flanagan did that story justice when adapting it for the big screen.