Then there’s ‘ The Life of Chuck ,’ directed by Mike Flanagan, which stars Tom Hiddleston in a story finding King in life-affirming, genre-bending mode, the original novella chronicling three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.

Roy Lee (Barbarian) is on board to produce the film, which does not yet have a writer attached. This won’t be Lee’s first time at the Stephen King rodeo. He already earned his bona fides producing both It movies, Salem’s Lot, Starz’s The Stand, and Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep.

Aronofsky is post on Caught Stealing, a crime drama starring Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz that Sony will release Aug. 29. He last directed the 2022 drama Whale, for which Brendan Fraser won an Oscar for best actor. Aronofsky is repped by CAA and Goodman Genow.