Filming on Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of a Stephen King short story, “The Life of Chuck,” is set to begin this month along the Alabama Gulf Coast.
First announced back in May, the author’s work involves three separate stories that are linked to tell the biography of the supposedly ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
However, the story unfolds in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumor at 39, and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house. The work was published in 2020 anthology collection “If It Bleeds”.
“Loki” star Tom Hiddleston is set to play the title character and Mark Hamill will play the role of Albie in the project which has a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement allowing it to film.
Recently, Gulf Coast Media published a piece calling for 1000 extras aged 11 and up for the movie and indicates it begins filming October 16th in various locations around Alabama’s Baldwin and Mobile counties.
Extras are needed for “two large crowd scenes” in the project with the shoot set to take around four weeks. It marks Flanagan’s third King film after taking on two novels with 2017’s “Gerald’s Game” and 2019’s “Doctor Sleep” – both of which scored very good reviews.
Flanagan, whose new series “The Fall of the House of Usher” hits Netflix next Friday, is also overseeing a combined movie and television adaptation of King’s fantasy saga “The Dark Tower” at Amazon.
