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Stephen King's Short Story Comes to the Screen in "The Life of Chuck"

  • Mike Flanagan released The Life of Chuck, a film adaptation of Stephen King's story, opening in theaters on June 13, 2025.
  • Flanagan chose this emotional fantasy after reading King's novella in April 2020 when he sought a project that deeply resonated amid personal stress.
  • The film tells the story of Charles Krantz, a 39-year-old dying of a brain tumor, whose life and memories create an imagined universe.
  • Flanagan said, "burrowed into my heart so quickly and so deeply," while King called it "wonderful" and praised lead Tom Hiddleston.
  • This life-affirming film, Flanagan's first non-horror King adaptation, invites reflection on memory and mortality, emphasizing love as Chuck's final thought.
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From a news from the master of the horror Stephen King, this poem of apocalypse in three acts celebrates the fragilite of life and its beauty.

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In the Russian film, Mike Flanagan's film "Chuck's Life" is one of the same-named messages of Stephen King, who appeared in his 2020 compilation of "Blood Will Be." It's an unusual, though not the first of its kind, filming of King, which is not a horror genre. Flanagan, who has already adapted the texts of a film writer twice, should be told: first, we see the third act of history, then the second and only at the end, the first that puts everyt…

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