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.

There was a very special reason Stephen King attended last September’s Toronto world premiere of “The Life of Chuck,” the latest picture based on one of his stories that opens nationwide today.

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

Based on the Stephen King novella, "The Life of Chuck" is in select theaters June 6 and nationwide June 13. The film is rated R by the Motion Picture Association "for language." ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...