With The Life Of Chuck, Mike Flanagan Has Made Another One Of The Best Stephen King Movies Of All Time
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With The Life Of Chuck, Mike Flanagan Has Made Another One Of The Best Stephen King Movies Of All Time



Mike Flanagan‘s track record adapting the works of Stephen King isn’t just impressive because the movies he has made are independently phenomenal works that reflect a perfect understanding of the source material; it’s also because of the titles that he chooses are exceptionally challenging to adapt. His first, Gerald’s Game, is a story set almost entirely in a single location centering on a protagonist who is handcuffed to a bed and forced to confront memories of awful childhood abuse. His second, Doctor Sleep, is a sequel to one of the greatest horror films of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and also had to take into consideration King’s notorious dislike of Kubrick’s movie.

That brings us to the Toronto International Film Festival world premiere of The Life Of Chuck – which is based on a novella I read shortly after it was first published in 2020 and made me think, “Well, I guess this one is never going to get an adaptation.” But Mike Flanagan clearly has a very special brain, and he has once again succeeded in making one of the best Stephen King movies ever.



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