A new adaptation of Stephen King will be released in the cinema this year. With already positive opinions, he promises to be one of the major films of 2025.
She won the public prize at the last Toronto film festival. A new adaptation of a work by Stephen King will be released in the movies this year. Highly anticipated, the film has finally unveiled a first mysterious teaser and was already generally praised by the criticism who was able to discover it, as “a devastating confrontation to oblivion”, “simply breathtaking”, “sincere and splendid”, “as sweet as it is …
With these first opinions, The Life of Chuck Figures in the list of films that we expect most this year. This feature film, which adapts a short novel by the master of horror, published in 2020, follows the life of an ordinary man, Charles Krantz, known as “Chuck”, at three moments in his life. With a particularity in the literary work: we start at the time of his death, to return to his childhood. Fans of the author will recognize it, this is closer to a work like The escapees what Shining Or That.
If The Life of Chuck Make particularly want, it is mainly thanks to all the people involved in the project. First Stephen King, whose success is no longer to be proven since he is able to fascinate the spectator with killers clowns, but also with more realistic intrigues.
On the realization, we find Mike Flanagan. This name may tell you something: it is the creator of one of the best series of Netflix, The Haunting of Hill Housebut also The HAUNING OF BLY MANOR, Midnight MASS Or The fall of the Usher house. The filmmaker has already interfered in the universe of Stephen King by adapting Jessiebut also the rest of Shining,, Doctor Sleep. Unlike the classic of Stanley Kubrick, this sequel worn by Ewan McGregor had received the praises from the author of the novel. He moves away here from his horrific obsessions to offer a story that turns out to be, according to the first images, much more intimate and realistic.
Around him, Mike Flanagan brought together actors accustomed to his different films and series, but also new ones. The actor Tom Hiddleston, who marked the spirits by playing Loki in the Marvel cinematic universe, embodies the title role. He is joined by Karen Gillan (The guards of the galaxy), Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Twelve Years a Slave), Jacob Tremblay (Room) or his wife, Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House). The first images, which suggest a strange tale, are to be discovered below.
“The Life of Chuck – Teaser Vostfr”
Unlike the Mike Flanagan series, it is on the big screen that we can see this new film from the filmmaker. It will be necessary to wait a few months before you can discover The Life of Chuck in the cinema. The feature film will be released in dark rooms on June 11, 2025 in France.