When will The Life of Chuck arrive on Hulu? Streaming details explored

The Life of Chuck has a streaming release date: December 26, 2025. This means that the movie has a wider reach, as it did not have a wide theatrical release. Mike Flanagan fans were not aware of The Life of Chuck because of its release strategy.

A Stephen King adaptation, the movie stars Tom Hiddleston as Charles "Chuck" Krantz. Like the book, the adaptation begins with the end, and goes back in time.

Hulu's social media account confirms a December release for The Life of Chuck:

Hulu itself confirmed The Life of Chuck streaming release date on its X (formerly Twitter) account. This announcement has some hope that the streaming service can pull in larger numbers, as the movie had a limited theatrical release in June 2025. The Mike Flanagan movie does follow the Stephen King short story, which is a part of the 2020 novella, If It Bleeds. The synopsis for the short story reads:

"The Life of Chuck is three separate stories linked to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumour at 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house."

Mike Flanagan, who directed the movie, addressed why he was attracted to the Stephen King short story in a June 2025 Variety interview:

"This story came into my life at a very interesting time, because I read it in April 2020. 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 didn’t know if I could take it. It just felt like, “The world’s ending right outside the window — I don’t need to read something that makes me feel the same level of anxiety.” But I’m so glad I stuck with the story because, by the end of it, I was shocked that I’d been taken from that place into a whole different headspace of optimism, gratitude and joy. It was a real reassessment of a lot of elements of my life. I was crying, and not tears of sadness. I was so moved by it that I put it down and thought, “If this story could pull me through such a journey from where I was when I began reading it … If I could make it into a film that could do that for one other person at a time when they might feel that way, then what an incredible opportunity.” What a beautiful piece of work. I wrote to Steve right after I finished reading it and said, “I know we’ve got a bunch of other stuff going on, and who knows what the state of the world is. However, I loved this story so much, if you would trust it to me and I can make something that’s a fraction of what I’m seeing in my imagination as I read it, it might be the best movie I ever get to make.” It took years to get to that place, but I wanted this movie to exist in the world for my kids, knowing that they would feel that way. What amazes me is the first act hits harder now for me than it did in 2020, which I didn’t think was possible. I just feel like there’s never not going to be a time, if we wait long enough, that these cycles of despair and anxiety are only going to remain. A story like this is a rare thing to me. I wasn’t thinking about genre. I wasn’t thinking about anything else. It just moved me so much that I felt that I had to make it."

Who stars in the movie?

The cast of The Life of Chuck is packed with a talented cast, which consists of :

Tom Hiddleston: Charles "Chuck" Krantz (39-year-old)
Jacob Tremblay: 17-year-old Chuck
Benjamin Pajak: 11-year-old Chuck
Cody Flanagan: 7-year-old Chuck
Nick Offerman: The Narrator
Chiwetel Ejiofor: Marty Anderson, a middle school teacher
Karen Gillan: Felicia Gordon, a nurse and Marty's ex-wife
Mark Hamill: Albie Krantz, Chuck's paternal grandfather
Mia Sara: Sarah Krantz, Chuck's paternal grandmother

"From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes THE LIFE OF CHUCK, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us."

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