Following a People's Choice Award win at Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, Mike Flanagan's Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck will officially be released in the U.S. on May 30, 2025, via NEON.
Based on King's 2020 novella of the same name, The Life of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill, as well as Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, and Jacob Tremblay:
“The Life of Chuck is three separate stories linked to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumor at 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house.”
The stacked cast also features FANGORIA fave David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm St.), Matthew Lillard (Scream), Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), and Harvey Guillén (What We Do In The Shadows), as well as regular Flanagan collaborators Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep), Kate Siegel (The Fall of the House of Usher), Annalise Basso (Oculus), Samantha Sloyan (Midnight Mass), Rahul Kohli (Usher), Matt Biedel (The Midnight Club), Sauriyan Sapkota (Usher), Saidah Arrika Ekulona (The Haunting of Hill House), Michael Trucco (Usher), Violet McGraw (Hill House), and Molly C. Quinn (Usher).
Joining them are Benjamin Pajak, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Antonio Raul Corbo, Q'Orianka Kilcher, and Taylor Gordon, in her screen debut.
The Life of Chuck marks another King adaptation for Flanagan, who previously directed Gerald's Game, and is currently working on a series adaptation of The Dark Tower and Carrie for Amazon.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Flanagan previously expanded on what made adapting The Life of Chuck such a passion project for him:
“The first third of ‘The Life of Chuck’ just rattled me […] There’s no way he wrote this before the world ground to this bizarre halt—but he did. And the feeling of anxiety, and uncertainty, and that everything was falling apart came roaring out at me. I wasn’t sure I could finish it. It just felt too close to the anxiety I was feeling […] By the end of it, I was in tears, and incredibly uplifted, and convinced I’d read maybe the best thing that he’d written in a decade. I just was floored by the thing […] So I fired off an email to him right away saying how much I loved the story, how incredible I thought it was, how meaningful, and important, and how it had really tattooed itself on my heart and said, ‘It’s the movie I want to make so that it’ll exist in the world for my kids.’”
Look out for The Life of Chuck in theaters next spring, and we'll bring you more updates as they roll in.
