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.

Many Stephen King movies with high Rotten Tomatoes scores have something in common, but what does this have to do with the author's writing style?

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...