Tom Hiddleston, star of Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck, compares the movie to The Shawshank Redemption
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Mike Flanagan – who has beforehand been on the helm of the Stephen King variations Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep (and can be growing a collection adaptation of The Dark Tower for Amazon Studios) – lately went into manufacturing on one other King adaptation, The Life of Chuck… and now, throughout an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, star Tom Hiddleston (Loki) has confirmed that his work on the movie has been accomplished. While speaking in regards to the movie, Hiddleston additionally in contrast it to one of the crucial in style King variations, The Shawshank Redemption!
Based on the brief story from King’s 2020 anthology If It Bleeds, The Life of Chuck consists of three separate tales linked to inform the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, starting together with his loss of life from a mind tumor and ending together with his childhood in a supposedly haunted home.
Hiddleston is enjoying Chuck, with Mark Hamill (Star Wars) enjoying a personality named Albie. They are joined within the solid by Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), Benjamin Pajak (Past My Bedtime), Trinity Jo-Li Bliss (Avatar: The Way of Water), Matthew Lillard (Scream), Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World), Antonio Raul Corbo (Into the Dark: Pilgrim), Harvey Guillén (What We Do within the Shadows), David Dastmalchian (The Boogeyman), Kate Siegel (Hush), Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep), Annalise Basso (Ouija: Origin of Evil), Samantha Sloyan (The Midnight Club), Rahul Kohli (Midnight Mass), Matt Biedel (Aliens Abducted My Parents), Sauriyan Sapkota (The Fall of the House of Usher), Saidah Arrika Ekulona (The Haunting of Hill House), Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica), Violet McGraw (M3GAN), Molly C. Quinn (Castle), and Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street).
We had heard earlier than that the variation is predicted to be related in tone to the likes of Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redeption, and The Green Mile. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Hiddleston stated (with because of Screen Rant for the transcription), “As I’m chatting with you now, I’ve wrapped my days on The Life of Chuck. And I had probably the most fantastic time with Mike Flanagan and his staff and his firm. There’s an actual firm of actors that he works with on a regular basis, but in addition some new performers, and on this Stephen King. He is a sort of major interpreter of Stephen King, I believe. And what I like about this materials and the brief tales on the market, was it gave the impression to be resonant of the Stephen King who wrote The Shawshank Redemption. There’s a heat and a sort of spirit that’s actually on the aspect of life within the story, that I actually related to once I learn it. It was simply probably the most extraordinary script. I related to it instantly. And then, and it’s Mike Flanagan who’s written the screenplay. So once we met, I simply stated that is superb. Can I come and do it? Can I please come and do it? And yeah, and we had a good time.“
As Hiddleston talked about, Flanagan wrote the screenplay. He can be producing the movie via his firm Intrepid Pictures. Just a few years in the past, we heard that Darren Aronofsky could be producing The Life of Chuck via his firm Protozoa, however he doesn’t look like concerned with the mission at this level.
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First seem at The Life of Chuck: Tom Hiddleston compares Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King film to The Shawshank Redemption
