After a light teaser trailer final month, we lastly have our first correct have a look at The Lifetime of Chuck. And whereas it doesn’t give an excessive amount of away, the brand new trailer offers style of the emotional tone of the film, which is a heartwarming story of 1 man’s life that has a contact of the post-apocalyptic to it. The trailer additionally teases the movie’s standout second: a seven-minute-long dance sequence from star Tom Hiddleston.
Primarily based on a brief story of the identical identify from Stephen King, The Life of Chuck is the most recent King adaptation from Mike Flanagan, who’s best-known for Netflix collection like The Haunting of Hill House, but additionally directed diversifications of Physician Sleep and Gerald’s Recreation. It follows Chuck (Hiddleston) by means of varied phases of his life, and opens on one thing resembling the tip of the world. Along with Hiddleston, Chuck additionally stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Jacob Tremblay, and Mark Hamill.
The movie premiered final 12 months on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, and I had the chance to see it then. For these curious, listed below are the ultimate ideas from my original review:
Flanagan has at all times been a storyteller who makes use of horror as a manner of exploring drama in a extra heightened state. Right here, he merely does away with the horror. The Lifetime of Chuck doesn’t get away from his well-worn habits; reasonably, it’s a perfect automobile for them. It’s additionally a becoming adaptation for an additional motive: in its final moments, it seems to be a haunting ghost story in any case.
The film hits theaters on June thirteenth. In the meantime, Flanagan can also be engaged on a pair of different King initiatives for Amazon, with diversifications of each The Dark Tower and Carrie.