Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck could be on its way to a big Oscar victory, if its recent success at the Toronto Film Festival is anything to go by anyway...
The new sci-fi movie picked up the People's Choice Award at the event this year. In the past, Big Picture winners such as Green Book, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, and Chariots of Fire have all picked up the same gong, which bodes well for its chances come the Academy Awards in 2025. At the very least it looks set to get a nomination for the Oscar's most prestigious accolade, as previous People's Choice Award titles La La Land, The Fabelmans, Silver Linings Playbook, this year's American Fiction, and more did.
Based on a short story found in the author's If It Bleeds collection (alongside Mr. Harrigan's Phone, which inspired the 2022 Netflix flick ), The Life of Chuck follows the titular Charles 'Chuck' Krantz (Loki's Tom Hiddleston) as he travels back in time to watch his life play out in reverse order after he dies. Having passed away from a brain tumor at 39, Chuck walks back through major events, before finding himself once again living in a supposedly haunted house.
(Well, it wouldn't be a Flanagan flick without a little bit of spookiness now, would it?) The film also stars Karen Gillan ( Guardians of the Galaxy ), David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Chiwetel Ejifor ( Doctor Strange ), Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Q'orianka Kilcher (Yellowstone), Harvey Guillén (.