Mike Flanagan’s The Lifetime of Chuck will formally start streaming in December. Previous to The Lifetime of Chuck, Flanagan’s final Stephen King adaptation was The Shining sequel, Physician Sleep, which got here to theaters in 2019. The filmmaker’s first time adapting King’s work was 2017’s Gerald’s Sport.
The Lifetime of Chuck will make its Hulu debut on December 26. The film has been accessible for digital buy or rental on Prime Video and different VOD platforms since July 29, however this marks the primary time that will probably be accessible to stream.
Primarily based on King’s story of the identical title, The Lifetime of Chuck tells the story of its titular character’s life in reverse. Tom Hiddleston performs the grownup Charles “Chuck” Krantz, whereas Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak, and Cody Flanagan play youthful iterations of the character. The star-studded solid additionally consists of Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Nick Offerman, Matthew Lillard, and Rahul Kohli.
Following its debut on the 2024 Toronto Movie Competition, the place it received the Folks’s Selection Award, The Lifetime of Chuck‘s evaluations have been typically optimistic. It holds a 79% important rating and 88% viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Not like Flanagan’s many Netflix reveals and former King variations, The Lifetime of Chuck doesn’t belong to the horror style, and is as an alternative a heartfelt drama that incorporates some fantastical components. It has extra in frequent with The Shawshank Redemption than The Shining, IT, and different horror tales King has written.
After returning to the world of King with The Lifetime of Chuck, Flanagan has extra variations of the long-lasting writer’s work on the way in which. He’s helming a Carrie TV sequence for Prime Video and confirmed on October 24 that the miniseries’ filming had wrapped and that it was “already considered one of my favourite initiatives ever.”
The solid of Mike Flanagan’s Carrie present consists of Summer time H. Howell as Carrie White, Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White, Amber Midthunder as Rita Desjardin, Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, Lillard as Henry Grayle, together with Katee Sackhoff and Kohli in recurring roles that stay beneath wraps.
Flanagan can be engaged on an adaptation of King’s Darkish Tower books, though his newest Darkish Tower replace was that the sequence will take “a very long time” because of the many difficult logistics concerned with bringing the bold story to life. Forward of Prime Video’s Carrie and the long-gestating Darkish Tower adaptation, followers of Flanagan and King’s work can watch The Lifetime of Chuck on Hulu.
- Launch Date
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Might 30, 2025
- Runtime
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110 minutes
- Producers
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D. Scott Lumpkin, Elan Gale, Trevor Macy, Molly C. Quinn, Melinda Nishioka