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Mike Flanagan on How a Studio Would’ve Ruined ‘Life Of Chuck,’ Stephen King’s Notes and Why He First Said No to the ‘Carrie’ Series
Mike Flanagan directed the new Stephen King adaptation 'The Life of Chuck' and is set to make a series based on the author's first book, 'Carrie.'
Mike Flanagan ’s latest film has the trappings of some of his past projects — a Stephen King adaptation, spooky and unknowable moments, appearances from his close collaborators — but is undoubtedly the director’s riskiest work. The pandemic lockdown is a month old, and starting a story that seemed to be about the world inexplicably ending with nothing in the way of answers, just endless anxiety and despair … it hit close to home, to the point that I was initially reluctant to finish reading it. I wasn’t at all going to presume to try to tell Mandy Moore how to choreograph the number, or talk to Taylor Gordon about how to play the drums, or to Tom or Annalise [Basso] about how they were expressing that kind of unforced joy that they had in dancing.
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