That’s all she wrote for Castle Rock, as Hulu has pulled the plug on the horror anthology series based on the works of Stephen King after two seasons. The news comes nearly a year after Season 2 premiered to disappointing ratings, only to be quickly forgotten amid a glut of anthology shows and limited series this year. And that’s the problem right there. Castle Rock … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’: Hulu Cancels Series After Two Seasons!!
The streaming wars have been incredibly good to Stephen King. It feels like virtually every service has a piece of the King pie – Netflix handled Gerald’s Game and 1922, DirecTV got Mr. Mercedes, Apple TV+ is developing Lisey’s Story, Hulu has Castle Rock, and HBO just enjoyed a huge ratings hit with The Outsider. HBO’s parent company Warner Bros. is busily cranking out King … Continue reading ‘Throttle’: Stephen King and Joe Hill’s Short Story Is Getting an HBO Max Film!!
HBO Max has ordered Overlook, a spinoff series about the haunted hotel in The Shining, from Warner Bros. Television Group and Bad Robot, the company run by J.J. Abrams and his co-CEO/wife Katie McGrath. Overlook is described as a horror-thriller series inspired by and featuring iconic characters from Stephen King‘s masterpiece The Shining. Overlook will explore the untold, terrifying stories of the most famous haunted … Continue reading ‘Overlook’: J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Working on ‘The Shining’ Spinoff Series for HBO Max!!
Bad Robot, the production company of filmmaker J.J. Abrams, will produce the supernatural western The Pinkerton for Warner Bros. If ghosts and cowboys and creepy old west towns are your kinda thing, this news is probably saloon piano music to your ears. As reported by THR, little else is known about the script, from writer Daniel Casey, although Casey already has an established history with Bad … Continue reading ‘The Pinkerton’: J. J. Abrams to Produce Supernatural Western For Warner Bros!!
Director Alex Ross Perry is about to become one of the many writer/directors who puts a Stephen King-sized notch in their belt as he prepares to adapt the novel The Dark Half for MGM. Perry is hot off the success of his well-reviewed film Her Smell, starring Elisabeth Moss and released earlier in 2019. Now, Perry has his sights on the world of King, one of the most frequently (if not the most frequently) … Continue reading ‘The Dark Half’: Alex Ross Perry to Helm MGM’s Stephen King Adaptation!!
Hulu has released the official full-length trailer for Castle Rock Season 2, and boy howdy does it look like a humdinger. The original series was revealed to be anthology in nature at the end of Season 1, as it pulls from various Stephen King books to craft one serialized, over-arching story each season that is set in King’s multiverse. The first season drew heavily from … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Season 2: New Full-Length Trailer for Finds More ‘Misery’!! Check It Out!!
The first trailer for Season 2 of Hulu’s Castle Rock is here at long last! Fans get their first good looks at star Lizzy Caplan as Annie Wilkes, a struggling mother employed as a nurse (and a psychopath in the making), as she arrives in the title town inspired by the many works of Stephen King. This first video is little more than a teaser, … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Season 2: First Trailer Introduces the New Cast!! Check It Out!!
There’s never been a better time to stan a horror King. Just over a month after IT: Chapter Two dances its way into theaters, Hulu’s Castle Rock—the series that mixes and matches the various nightmares of Stephen King—will return for season 2 on October 23. The second chapter of the horror hit will borrow a hefty dose from King’s 1987 novel Misery, with Lizzy Caplan … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Will Return to Hulu in October!! Check Out the Teaser!!
THR is reporting that streaming service Hulu has ordered an eight-episode anthology series based upon North American Lake Monsters, author Nathan Balllingrud’s collection of short stories. The as-yet-untitled series has been created by writer and executive producer Mary Laws (Preacher), and has Babak Anvari (Under the Shadow) attached to direct. It is being described as “a contemporary horror anthology [which] will explore how encounters with … Continue reading ‘North American Lake Monsters’: Hulu Orders Series Adaption!!
Season 1 of Hulu’s Castle Rock was a treasure trove of homages, Easter eggs, and story crossovers for fans of horror icon Stephen King. Season 2 looks to continue that trend by taking on Misery, King’s 1987 psychological horror novel that centered on nurse Annie Wilkes and her deadly obsession with romance novelist, Paul Sheldon. Kathy Bates earned an Oscar for her performance as Wilkes … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Season 2 to Pay Homage to ‘Misery’ with Lizzy Caplan as Annie Wilkes!!!!
Freeform is looking to get involved with the Stephen King renaissance, with the Disney-owned cable network picking up the rights to King’s 2013 novel Joyland for development as a potential TV series. Published by Hard Case Crime, Joyland is set in 1973 and follows a stunt Devin Jones who takes a summer job at the Joyland amusement park, where he is forced to confront the … Continue reading ‘Joyland’: Freeform Is Adapting Stephen King’s 2013 Novel As a TV Series!!!
Hulu has officially ordered a second season of Castle Rock, the streamer’s horror anthology series based on the various manglings and stranglings of Stephen King. The series’ first season—coming up on its sixth episode—has been one heck of a gory good time, telling the story of a devil with an above-average looking butt played by perennial boogeyman Bill Skarsgard who seemingly brings death and despair to … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Renewed for Season 2 at Hulu!!
Fans of horror master Stephen King are in for an absolute Easter Egg feast with the new Castle Rock trailer. Hulu’s horror-show is a bit of a blender-job of King’s bibliography, a psychological thriller that mashes up the author’s best works into a messed up smoothie of psych wards, rabid dogs, and Bill Skarsgard’s naturally unsettling face. The trailer alone is filled with King nods—not … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Trailer: The Hulu Original Mashs-Up Stephen King’s Best Works!! Check It Out!!
Hulu is dropping some series coin again this year to preview an upcoming series during the Super Bowl. Last year’s The Handmaid’s Tale spot was an eerie, dystopian glimpse that was so at odds with the tone of our Super Bowl gathering (at least at that time – RIP Falcons) that everyone just needed to pause and take stock afterwards. The new trailer for Castle Rock may not … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Trailer Teases Hulu’s Stephen King Multiverse-Set Series!!! Check It Out!!
J.J. Abrams has spent near the last decade traversing the galaxy on the big screen with the Star Trek and Star Wars films, but Abrams is finally eyeing a return to TV writing with a new sci-fi series. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker plans to head back to space once agin with a new spec script he’s shopping around to networks. The series would … Continue reading J.J. Abrams Shopping a Return to TV with New Sci-Fi Series!!!
Hulu has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming original series Castle Rock, which is a psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse. As fans of King’s work well know, his books are littered with references and Easter Eggs to one another, suggesting some take place in the same universe as each other. This TV series, which hails from executive producer J.J. … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’ Teaser Reveals Hulu & J.J. Abrams’ Stephen King Shared Universe Series!! Check It Out!!
Bill Skarsgård has been cast as a series regular in Hulu’s Stephen King series “Castle Rock,” Variety has learned. The project marks the second King project for Skarsgård, who will star in the film adaptation of King’s classic novel, “It,” as the iconic terrorizing clown, Pennywise. In “Castle Rock,” Skarsgård will play a young man with an unusual legal problem. He joins a cast that includes Sissy Spacek, André Holland, Jane Levy and … Continue reading ‘It’ Star Bill Skarsgård Joins Stephen King Hulu Series ‘Castle Rock’!!!
Sissy Spacek is making her return to the Stephen King multiverse in the upcoming Hulu series “Castle Rock.” In “Castle Rock” she will play Ruth Deaver, the estranged adoptive mother of Henry (Andre Holland). Henry is the series lead — a retired professor with fading memories and a complicated history about the town. One of Spacek’s best known roles is thanks to a King work. She … Continue reading Sissy Spacek to Make Return to Stephen King Multiverse in ‘Castle Rock’!!!
Between all the different dead bodies, powerful monsters, and ancient mysteries that have come out of the mind of Stephen King, there has been one personal consistency that the author has often returned to over the years. King has a penchant for setting or connecting many of his tales, including It, The Shawshank Redemption, and Misery, through his home state of Maine. This tendency has … Continue reading ‘Castle Rock’: First Teaser Unveils J.J. Abrams & Stephen King’s Surprise Anthology Series for Hulu!! Check It Out!!!
