The Life of Chuck is based on the novel by the same name by Stephen King. The film is directed by Mike Flanagan and stars Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Carl Lumbly, Benjamin Pajak, with Jacob Tremblay & Mark Hamill.

The Life of Chuck celebrates the life of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us. When the story opens, society is crumbling, cities are falling into the sea, and systems are breaking down (sound familiar?)…

Director Mike Flanagan read the book during COVID, but he didn’t know if he could finish it. Why? Because unlike the movie, the book is a little dark, and catastrophic.. and Flanagan like the rest of us was living that story everyday during COVID and was ready for it to be over.

“When I started reading it I almost stopped and said, ‘I don’t know if I can do this right now, ’” Flanagan shared during a press junket for the movie. “‘I don’ know if I need this story right now. I feel this way every day. I don’t need it off the page.’ But when I finished reading it I was so overwhelmed with joy and peace, and to go from that feeling I had at the beginning — where I really felt like his story met me where I was — and then to be pulled through all of that into this place of real joy and introspection and even hope, that’s the experience of The Life of Chuck. That’s the experience I wanted to recreate. It’s about that contrast between the beginning and the end of the story that really touches on the two polar intensities of the emotional experience of being alive on this earth. To touch both sides of that and explore everything in between is what made it profound to me, and I think you need to start that way just to feel how impactful that message really is.”

The Life of Chuck  challenges the traditional structure of storytelling, asking us to look not only backward but inward. At a time when audiences are searching for meaning amidst chaos, The Life of Chuck offers a bold, resonant, and deeply affecting vision of what it means to live and to matter.

The Life of Chuck in select theaters June 6th and everywhere June 13th.