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The film comes courtesy of the softer side of Stephen King, adapted from a story in his 2020 collection of novellas, “If It Bleeds.”

I was really intrigued, and then I went back and read “All Systems Red,” which is the first novella that Martha Wells wrote based on this character, and I just fell in love with Murderbot.

That sense of quiet disorientation — of a world slowly unraveling — pulses through “The Life of Chuck,” director Mike Flanagan’s strange and tender adaptation of a 2020 Stephen King novella.

Each of the novellas are just the perfect length for a single afternoon.

There was one I was just about to shoot called “Stone Mattress,” based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, a little short story in a novella.