Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill to Star in Adaptation of Stephen King's THE LIFE OF CHUCK with Mike Flanagan Directing

Movie The Life Of Chuck Stephen King Tom Hiddleston Mark Hamill Mike Flanagan about a year agoby Jessica Fisher

Actors Tom Hiddleston (Marvel’s Loki) and Mark Hamill, of Star Wars fame, are set to star in a film adaptation of author Stephen King’s short story, The Life of Chuck. Doctor Sleep and The Haunting Of Hill House helmer Mike Flanagan is directing, scripting and producing for Intrepid Pictures alongside fellow producer Trevor Macy. The project is set to be one of the big projects to sell at Cannes Film Festival this year.

“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 tumour at 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house.”

The script, which was adapted prior to the WGA strike, has been in the works for several months with Hiddleston set to play the title character and Hamill joining for the role of Albie.

According to the production, the genre project will draw tonally from Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

Have you read this short story? What do you think of the casting?

via: Deadline

Jessica Fisher

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