The Life of Chuck is a 2024 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is based on the ...

The feel-good-apocalyptic tale featuring Mark Hamill and directed by Mike Flanagan is based on the Stephen King novella. Rick ...

FILE - Stephen King, left, and Mike Flanagan appear at the premiere of "The Life of Chuck" during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Sept. 6, 2024.

Stephen King adaptations have had a good year already, and one of his great horror movies is soon coming to streaming.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen King ’s first editor, Bill Thompson, once said, “Steve has a movie camera in his head.” So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen King ’s first editor, Bill Thompson, once said, “Steve has a movie camera in his head.” So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films ...

And yet in this doomsday tale, King is at his most sincere. “The Life of Chuck,” the book and the movie, is about what matters in life when everything else is lost.

FILE - Stephen King, left, and Mike Flanagan appear at the premiere of "The Life of Chuck" during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Sept. 6, 2024.

If “The Life of Chuck” has particular meaning to King, it could be because it represents something intrinsic about his own life. Chuck’s small, seemingly unremarkable existence has grace and ...

FILE - Stephen King, left, and Mike Flanagan appear at the premiere of "The Life of Chuck" during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Sept. 6, 2024.