The Life of Chuck Trailer Promises Something Different From Mike Flanagan and Stephen King

Mike Flanagan has spent a lot of his career thus far crafting Stephen King adaptations, at least when he wasn’t scaring the pants off Netflix viewers with his horror series. But The Life of Chuck is a departure for both filmmaker and author; while we’ve seen more dramatic fare sourced from King in the past (The Shawshank Redemption is one example), Flanagan has definitely entered some new turf here. Check out the trailer for The Life of Chuck, which leans far more in the direction of “uplifting tearjerker” than “may cause nightmares, proceed with caution.” Billed as “the extraordinary story of an ordinary man” and an “unforgettable, genre-bending tale,” The Life of Chuck unfolds on a reverse timeline, from death to birth, as it “celebrates the life of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.” Tom Hiddleston plays the adult version of Chuck, with Jacob Tremblay (Room, The Toxic Avenger) taking on C ... Read full article.