Following the box office successes of The Monkey, Longlegs, and Best Picture winner Anora, NEON might have another popular favorite on their hands. What’s surprising about that is it’s a Stephen King adaptation. After winning the People’s Choice Award at TIFF last year, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck arrives this summer and could have Tom Hiddleston dancing his way into the audience’s heart.
Based on a short story in King’s If It Bleeds novella, The Life of Chuck stars Hiddleston as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, an ordinary guy with a love for dancing. His tragic but also life-affirming story is told in three chapters presented in reverse chronologically.
Joining Hiddleston in the cast are Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Annalise Basso, Samantha Morton, and Mia Sara, with Nick Offerman as the narrator.
SYNOPSIS: A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
The Life of Chuck opens on June 6th.
