Life of Chuck – King Stephen (2025)

Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck is an unforgettable, mind-bending story about life and legacy, now also a feature film directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Karen Gillan. Originally published in the story collection If It Bleeds, this standalone edition unfolds in reverse, tracing the extraordinary life of Charles “Chuck” Krantz. As the world crumbles under natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure and mass panic, strange billboards appear around town proclaiming, “Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!” Schoolteacher Marty Anderson becomes obsessed with the messages as the world, mysteriously connected to Chuck’s life, seems to approach its end. Told in three acts and presented backwards, the story follows Chuck in middle age on a business trip in Boston, where a busker draws him into a beautiful sidewalk dance, and as a child in a house haunted by a terrible secret, learning to dance with his grandmother. King celebrates fleeting everyday pleasures, community, joy, mystery, existential wonder and the many selves contained in each of us. The film adaptation won the Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award.