It’s a different take for casual fans of King, and also a departure for writer-director-producer Flanagan, who is best known for horror films like Absentia, Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald’s Game (also King adaptation) and Doctor Sleep.
The trailer opens with an image of two people holding hands, then a sound that resembles a ticking clock, a blinking yellow stoplight and Tom Hiddleston’s Charles “Chuck” Kranz walking through a modern setting before a voiceover (Nick Offerman) paraphrasing Walt Whitman intones, “The universe contains multitudes, but it also contains … me.”
Rather faithful to King’s original text, Flanagan’s film is a story of life rather than death, with bath dark and poignant elements.
In addition to Hiddleston, the film features Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Matthew Lillard, Mia Sara, Carl Lumbly, Flanagan’s wife Kate Siegel, Benjamin Pajak, Jacob Tremblay, Mark Hamill and Heather Langenkamp.
Here is the new teaser poster:
