This summer you will again look in the cinema at a new film adaptation of a Stephen King story. The Life of Chuck (2024) Was directed by none other than Mike Flanagan, who, after his hair -raising mini series for Netflix, now (appropriately!) Works on a new serial version of ‘Carrie’. The trailer of the groundbreaking new drama can now be seen.
Told the other way around
Loki actor Tom Hiddleston plays Charles Krantz, a man who dies at the age of 39 of a brain tumor. The Life of Chuck Charles tilts his perspective by telling his life story inversely. This is how the film starts with his death and we work towards his younger years, in which life could still go in all directions for the main character. “If you look at the starry sky, he can tell you what your future looks like”:
Festival prime
The Life of Chuck is not an isolated novel, but a short story from anthology If It Bleeds (2020). Flanagan took care of the story by tackling not only the direction, but also the adaptation and production of the King-Novelle. At the Toronto film festival, the result was mainly received positively, although some critics found the film a bit messy or over-ambitious in propagating his ideas.
In addition to Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Q’orianka Kilcher and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill can also be seen in the film. Jacob Tremblay (Room (2015)) The role of young Charles plays.
7.7Based on Stephen Kings short story ‘The Life of Chuck’ from his Anthology ‘If It Bleeds’, which consists of three separate stories that are connected to each other to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse order, starting with his death to a brain tumor at the age of 39 and ending with his youth in a soil house.
From 5 June you can The Life of Chuck look at Dutch cinemas.
Beeld: Still ‘The Life of Chuck’ via TMDb
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