“The Life of Chuck” was sold to Neon after winning the Toronto Film Festival’s prestigious People’s Choice Award.
Neon declined to comment.
The TIFF Audience Award has historically been a reliable predictor of eventual Oscar success. It’s unclear whether that will be the case again this year, but “The Life of Chuck” has received generally positive reviews.
Based on Stephen King’s 2020 novella, The Life of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston and is directed by Mike Flanagan. Billed as a “life-affirming” story about an ordinary man named Charles Krantz, the film is divided into three distinct chapters of his life that unfold in reverse chronological order, slowly disintegrating It is set against the backdrop of a world that appears to be the way it is. Starring Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Jacob Tremblay, “The Life of Chuck” is not “It” or “Pet Sematary,” but “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Stand.” It has been compared to “Bye Me.”
In this film, the titular Chuck performs a long dance sequence. There, Hiddleston, who plays a repressed accountant whose life is shrouded in mystery, endures a six-week crash course to learn everything from jazz, swing, polka, samba and cha-cha to quickstep and the moonwalk. Ta.
“I had to do all these technical dances, none of which I had any training for,” Hiddleston said. variety At TIFF. “Some things were easier to achieve than others. I realized I loved dancing jazz and swing. Bossa nova is more technical, so it took me about a minute to figure it out. Polka It’s like a 100-meter run. It feels like a gallop.”
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