Filmmaker Mike Flanagan has already created fairly a legacy for himself. From his movies like Physician Sleep and Gerald’s Sport, to exhibits like The Fall of the Home of Usher, Midnight Mass, and The Haunting of Hill Home, Flanagan has principally develop into his personal model, particularly within the horror style. And but, though he’s additionally hooked up to movies or exhibits within the worlds of The Exorcist, Carrie, The Darkish Tower, and Batman, none of that’s what he thinks he’ll be remembered for.
No, Flanagan thinks his subsequent film, The Lifetime of Chuck, goes to be that legacy. Or, a minimum of, that’s what he hopes. “There are only a few items of labor that I think about will outlive me in a significant manner,” Flanagan wrote in excerpts of an essay launched on social media. “You at all times hope they may; we hope that in telling the tales we inform, we’re planting a seed that may develop lengthy after we’ve light away. I don’t know which of those seeds will take root with individuals, and dwelling on these questions is a path to madness. I really feel a quiet, humble confidence that The Lifetime of Chuck will lengthy outlast us all.”
For individuals who is probably not conscious, The Lifetime of Chuck is predicated on a brief story by the one and solely Stephen King. It tells the story of 1 man’s life—on this case, Chuck—backwards. Tom Hiddleston performs Chuck in some components of the film, and he’s joined by the likes of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Jacob Tremblay, and Mark Hamill, amongst many others.
“The Lifetime of Chuck is, at this second in time, my favourite film I’ve ever been part of,” Flanagan, who tailored the screenplay and directs, continues. “I instructed individuals going into manufacturing that this was the movie I needed to go away on the planet for my youngsters. It’s so uncommon to work on one thing so significant, so distinctive, so distinct, and so earnest. This can be a story with out a cynical bone in its physique. What a uncommon and exquisite second of artwork.”
The movie received the very prestigious Folks’s Alternative Award ultimately yr’s Toronto Movie Pageant and is coming to theaters June 6. Plus, I’ve to say, I agree with Flanagan right here. I’ve seen The Lifetime of Chuck and whereas it’s a fancy thinker of a film, it’s additionally wealthy and completely phenomenal. It’s caught with me weeks after first seeing it. io9 could have a full evaluate and extra as we get nearer to launch, however till then, right here’s a brand new clip from the movie that’s not solely essential to the film general, however gives you a way of what Flanagan is saying.
A complete universe proper between your arms. THE LIFE OF CHUCK. From the hearts and souls of Mike Flanagan and Stephen King. In Choose Cities 6.6, All over the place 6.13. pic.twitter.com/hyn3wMslKm
— NEON (@neonrated) Could 19, 2025
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