“The Lifetime of Chuck” was one among 4 novellas printed in King’s latest assortment “If It Bleeds,” and it’s by far probably the most surreal of all of them. I do not wish to wreck issues for you in case you’ve by no means learn the story, however I’ll say that it is in contrast to any earlier Stephen King story, though you’ll be able to really feel the writer’s trademark expertise at fleshing out actual characters even whereas the story goes into some borderline Charlie Kaufman/”Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts” areas.
The story is advised in three phases, one stage is a world on the point of collapse and you do not know why and in parallel is the story of Chuck. Once we meet him he is dying and the story goes backward from there, all the best way again to his childhood and his relationship along with his grandparents, together with his ghost-seeing grandpa.
Apparently sufficient, Darren Aronofsky’s manufacturing firm, Protozoa Footage, was the primary to possibility this story, though it appears their possibility lapsed and King has now trusted it to Flanagan after the success of his earlier diversifications, “Gerald’s Sport” and “Physician Sleep.”
The attention-grabbing factor about Mike Flanagan is he appears to focus on adapting notoriously difficult-to-adapt King properties. “Gerald’s Sport” was thought unfilmable for a very long time as a result of nearly your entire story takes place within the thoughts of a lady handcuffed to a mattress and “Physician Sleep” had the unimaginable job of bringing collectively Stephen King’s world and Stanley Kubrick’s iconic cinematic (if not terribly devoted) adaptation. He knocked each out of the park and now he is tasked with this odd-ball title.
As a serious King fan, I can not consider somebody higher for the job.