Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of the Stephen King Novella The Lifetime of Chuck has landed distribution.
Neon will launch the film that premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, happening to win the viewers award. The anthology movie is instructed in three components and focuses on the life, inner and exterior, of Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston). Karen Gillan, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mark Hamill additionally star.
Whereas Flanagan has tailored different King works, particularly within the horror style, The Lifetime of Chuck has drawn nearer comparisons to Frank Darabont’s Shawshank Redemption.
Speaking to THR forward of TIFF, Flanagan mentioned of talking with King, “After we have been doing The Lifetime of Chuck, we talked rather a lot earlier than manufacturing. He has an infinite quantity of approvals on issues like casting and different particulars. However when the film goes, he stays very distant. He says, ‘The film’s yours and the e book is mine.’”
The THR assessment of the movie reads: “It comes as no shock that reigning scare-meister Mike Flanagan has a tender spot for Stephen King, having efficiently tailored Gerald’s Recreation and Physician Sleep for the massive display. However his newest stab at King, the genre-warping The Lifetime of Chuck, makes for an oddball if much less excellent match.”
Elsewhere on Neon’s slate is Cannes winner Anora and Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story Presence. The corporate lately launched the horror thriller Longlegs, which has grossed over $100 million on the international field workplace.