A brand new Stephen King adaptation from Physician Sleep director Mike Flanagan is ready to function some main Marvel and Star Wars actors. Making his function movie debut with 2011’s unbiased horror movie Absentia, Flanagan is also referred to as the creator and showrunner on Netflix’s hit collection The Haunting of Hill Home and The Haunting of Bly Manor. No stranger to adapting King’s work to the display, the director additionally helmed 2017’s Gerald’s Sport previous to turning his consideration to the 2019 sequel to The Shining, Physician Sleep.
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Extra not too long ago, Deadline has revealed that Flanagan’s newest King adaptation, The Life Of Chuck, is ready to star Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill. In line with the unique report, the script was already accomplished previous to the present WGA writers strike, and growth on the venture has been ongoing for a number of months. Hiddleston is ready to imagine the titular function of Charles “Chuck” Krantz, whereas Hamill will play his character’s grandfather, Albie.
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Primarily based on the three-act novella of the identical title, The Lifetime of Chuck follows the story of a 39-year-old man whose life story is instructed in reverse order. Initially featured in King’s 2020 anthology If It Bleeds, the story begins with Chuck dying in a hospital mattress from a mind tumor and ends with him as an orphaned little one going to dwell together with his grandparents in a supposedly haunted home.
With Flanagan’s forthcoming adaptation being likened to a few of King’s extra emotive works, reminiscent of Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Inexperienced Mile, it will appear that The Life Of Chuck will largely avoid King’s penchant for horror components. Nonetheless, the unique story does nonetheless function a substantial amount of King’s trademark character work and love of the surreal.
This movie will mark Flanagan’s second collaboration with Hamill, who can be set to star in his upcoming Netflix collection Fall of The Home of Usher, primarily based on the traditional story from Edgar Allan Poe. It’s going to, nevertheless, be Flanagan’s first time working with Hiddleston. In the mean time, there isn’t a indication when audiences can count on to see The Lifetime of Chuck arrive in theaters, although with this star-studded casting announcement, the newest Stephen King adaptation is bound to start piquing loads of curiosity.
Supply: Deadline