Tom Hiddleston Compares Stephen King Upcoming Movie To His Greatest Film
Tom Hiddleston has been riding high as of late as the second season of his Disney+ series, Loki came to an end, fulfilling its glorious purpose with record-breaking views. Now that he’s done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (for now at least), the actor can move on and spread his wings in other projects. One of those projects will see him team up with an astounding lineup of actors in a Mike Flanagan-directed adaptation of a Stephen King story that Middleston is teasing to be better than The Shawshank Redemption.
Tom Hiddleston Compares The Life Of Chuck To The Shawshank Redemption
Speaking with CinemaBlend, Tom Hiddleston said that Flanagan’s take on The Life of Chuck will have “the same warmth, same spirit” as Stephen King’s novel, The Shawshank Redemption. Referring to The Shawshank Redemption as on his “top five favorite films of all time” list, Hiddleston also says that it was a pivotal movie in his growth as an actor during his early teen years. While it has all the makings of a classic King story, he says that it also threw in “a warmth and a strength of spirit and a kind of overarching philosophy that is resolutely on the side of life and love that’s at the center of that story.”
Tom Hiddleston Leads The Life Of Chuck
In The Life of Chuck, Tom Hiddleston will step into the protagonist’s world as he stars in the leading role. The story, which is an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella of the same name. It first saw the light of day in the author’s 2020 project, If It Bleeds, and tells the story of its titular character but from death to life rather than the other way around. It begins with an introduction to Chuck who, as he approaches his 40th birthday, is dying of a brain tumor with the story going backwards through the years and broken into three different sections.
Karen Gillan Joins Tom Hiddleston
Assembling an incredible cast for his latest production, Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) tapped not only Tom Hiddleston but also a slew of familiar names including Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Matthew Lillard (Five Nights at Freddy’s), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness), David Dastmalchian (The Boogeyman), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), and more.
Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation will also feature many frequent collaborators from his work in Netflix shows and movies such as Mark Hamill (The Fall of the House of Usher), Kate Siegel (Midnight Mass), Rahul Kohli (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Samantha Sloyan (The Midnight Club), Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep), and horror legend Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Midnight Club).
Mike Flanagan And Stephen King
While The Life of Chuck marks the first time that Tom Hiddleston and Mike Flanagan have joined forces, it certainly isn’t Flanagan’s first dip into the horrifying world of Stephen King. The director previously brought audiences the second chapter of The Shining via his 2019 feature Doctor Sleep and delighted Netflix audiences with his feature-length adaptation of Gerald’s Game. With Flanagan ditching Netflix and moving on to greener pastures with Prime Video, it’s still unclear how The Life of Chuck will be distributed.
Tom Hiddleston Wraps Up Loki Season 2
Holding down one of the biggest character arcs audiences have ever seen in the MCU, Tom Hiddleston’s performance in Loki is currently all that fans can talk about. However, as production on the Stephen King adaptation comes to a halt, the actor’s latest project will likely begin to hog more of the spotlight. Stay tuned for further information surrounding The Life of Chuck.
