Mike Flanagan’s Next Stephen King Adaptation Adds to Marvelous Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor attends a screening ofThe Woman King on October 03, 2022 in London, England.
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Loki’s Tom Hiddleston is already aboard as The Life of Chuck’s title character, and Mark Hamill—coming off a wonderful flip in Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher—can also be a identified a part of the forged. But Flanagan’s subsequent big-screen challenge, which marks a return to Stephen King for the Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game helmer, has simply added a number of new names to its forged, together with a pair of Hiddleston’s Marvel teammates.

Deadline reports that The Life of Chuck, written and directed by Flanagan and tailored from King’s 2020 If It Bleeds novella assortment, has introduced in Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness, The Man Who Fell to Earth, 12 Years a Slave) and Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), in addition to acclaimed teen actor Jacob Tremblay (The Little Mermaid, Room). No particulars got on their characters.

According to King’s website, 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.” The different novellas within the anthology embrace Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, which was tailored right into a Netflix movie by writer-director John Lee Hancock final 12 months. The Life of Chuck, which is roofed by an interim settlement, is at present in manufacturing.


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