The Life of Chuck Trailer Promises Something Different From Mike Flanagan and Stephen King

Mike Flanagan has spent a batch of his vocation frankincense acold crafting Stephen King adaptations, astatine slightest erstwhile helium wasn’t scaring the pants disconnected Netflix viewers with his fearfulness series. But The Life of Chuck is simply a departure for some filmmaker and author; portion we’ve seen much melodramatic fare sourced from King successful the past (The Shawshank Redemption is 1 example), Flanagan has decidedly entered immoderate caller turf here.

Check retired the trailer for The Life of Chuck, which leans acold much successful the absorption of “uplifting tearjerker” than “may origin nightmares, proceed with caution.”

Billed arsenic “the bonzer communicative of an mean man” and an “unforgettable, genre-bending tale,” The Life of Chuck unfolds connected a reverse timeline, from decease to birth, arsenic it “celebrates the beingness of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz arsenic helium experiences the wonderment of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained successful each of us.”

Tom Hiddleston plays the big mentation of Chuck, with Jacob Tremblay (Room, The Toxic Avenger) taking connected Chuck arsenic a teen. Other cardinal roles are played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Carl Lumbly, Matthew Lillard, and Mark Hamill, but the formed has galore much members (including respective Flanagan-familiar faces similar Samantha Sloyan, Hamish Linklater, and Kate Siegel).

The Life of Chuck hits theaters—and changes lives, if that trailer makes bully connected its claims—June 6, with a wider opening June 13.

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