“The Game” and “Doctor Sleeps Awakening” are horror films that director Mike Flanagan shot based on Stephen King’s templates – and the fact that Flanagan will now also be adapting King’s mega-epic “The Dark Tower” is stirring the hearts of fans beat faster. But it doesn’t always have to be horror, and anyone familiar with Stephen King’s novels knows that the author doesn’t always stick to this genre alone.
And so Flanagan’s current King adaptation ‘The Life Of Chuck’ will not be a horror film – as the director himself explained when he finished filming a few weeks ago. Now, actress Kate Siegel also spoke about the tone of “The Life Of Chuck” and revealed a few more details.
An optimistic story by Stephen King?
In Stephen King’s short story “Chuck’s Life,” published in the 2020 novella collection “Bloody News,” Charles Krantz’s life is told backwards. The main character is played by Tom Hiddleston. Kate Siegel (“Midnight Mass”) will appear next to him praised “The Life If Chuck.” now as a thoroughly positive film: “It’s great. He is gorgeous. It’s not a horror movie.”
There is a particularly uplifting moment in Stephen King’s original that conveys humanity and beauty: “There’s a moment in ‘Chuck,’ the short story, where there’s dancing, and after the dancing the narrator says something like, ‘That. That’s why God made the world.’”
She doesn’t believe in an omniscient God with a long beard who made the world, the actress said, but she believes in magic and the universe in a way she can’t understand — “and it’s important that we do.” are dealing with all these humanitarian crises, with people not getting health care at home, with what’s happening to our banks, with billionaires, with everything being eaten alive by greed, with these moments in our daily lives where you look at it and think that. That is why God made the world.” And that makes it bearable. So I think ‘Chuck’ will make life more bearable for people.”
A life told backwards in 3 chapters
That actually sounds like a very optimistic tenor for a Stephen King story. In three separate stories, “The Life of Chuck” tells the life of Charles Krantz backwards, beginning with his death from a brain tumor at age 39 and ending with his childhood in an allegedly haunted house.
In addition to Kate Siegel, it also stars the aforementioned Tom Hiddleston (“Loki”) in the title role, Mark Hamill (“Star Wars”), Karen Gillan (“Guardians Of The Galaxy”), Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years A Slave”) , Matthew Lillard (“Five Nights At Freddy’s”), Jacob Tremblay (“Room”) and David Dastmalchian (“Oppenheimer”). It is not yet known when “The Life Of Chuck” will begin.