Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House) offered an update on its film adaptation of Stephen King The Life of Chuck. He completed post-production on the film and one of its stars, David Dastmalchianoffered his thoughts on the film.
Dastmalchian said of the film: “It’s beautiful. You think, ‘Oh, Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, this thing is just going to be the most horrible, terrifying thing you’ve ever seen.’ [But] it’s so beautifully rendered, heartfelt, the drama, the performances,” he said Late night with the devil star Dastmalchian in a new interview with Gizmodo.
He continued: “The cast in this film is deep. [Matthew] Lillard has a moment in this movie that breaks my heart. Karen Gillan, another one who I think treads that incredible ski slope between her small independent art films and then the big studio budget stuff. One of the best actors in Hollywood right now. Kate Siegel, I mean, that’s it [many] Great people! Ah, what a joy.”
The film is based on the short story from King’s 2020 anthology If it bleeds“The Life of Chuck consists of three separate stories linked to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumor at age 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house. “
According to the production, the project will draw inspiration from a tonal point of view Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption AND The green mile.
Karen Gillanone of the film’s stars, saw a rough cut of it and previously said it made her “cry for days.”
The actress explained: “You know what, he didn’t seem that different. I was thinking, ‘OK, how has he changed? He’s done so many movies.’ [It] I felt the same! We were back in Alabama as if we had never left. If there was any difference, I guess he just felt more… I mean, he was relaxed the first time, but maybe he wasn’t, he was just pretending to be relaxed. But no, it was just the same Mike Flanagan, brilliant and the film is absolutely incredible. I saw an unfinished version of it and literally didn’t stop crying for days. In a good way.”
The film is also the protagonist Tom Hiddleston, Marco Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange), AND Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep), as well as My Sara, Matthew Lillard, Beatitude of the Trinity, Harvey Guillen, Rahul Kohli, David DastmalchianAND Heather Langenkamp.
This is one of the most anticipated upcoming film projects and I’m very excited to see how Flanagan tells this story.
Source: Letterboxd / Gizmodo
by Joey Paur
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