"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams and "It" horror maestro Stephen King are teaming up for a secret Hulu anthology "Castle Rock." The pair previously collaborated on the streaming service's limited series "11.22.63," which revisits the Kennedy assassination.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Castle Rock" is named after the town features in many of King's books. It will weave together characters and themes from those novels that use the location. A different set of characters and storylines will be seen in each season while interjecting themes and specific characters from the previous seasons, similar to how "Fargo" showed the Coen brothers' cinematic universe.
Abrams and King both shared posts on social media on Friday night teasing a new secret Hulu project called "Castle Rock." The upcoming anthology series is set in this fictional Maine town, which sounds familiar to King readers as it has been the setting for several King's novels and short stories such as "Cujo" (1981) and "Needful Things" (1991), Entertainment Weekly reported.
The town "Castle Rock" first appeared in "The Dead Zone" back in 1979 and takes its name from the fictional mountain fort in William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies" in 1954. It also has been featured in "The Body" (1982), "Uncle Otto's Truck" (1983), "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" (1984), "The Dark Half" (1989), "The Sun Dog" (1990), and "It Grows on You" (1973).
"Manhattan" creator Sam Shaw and Dusty Thomason will also be involved in "Castle Rock." The series hails from Abrams and his Warner Bros. Television-based Bad Robot Productions banner. It serves as a kind of reply to Netflix's similarly supernatural "Stranger Things."
No additional information such as an air date or episode count is announced yet for "Castle Rock." However, it is expected to join this year's big- and small-screen adaptations of King's work on "The Dark Tower" and an "It" remake.
Watch the video about "Castle Rock" teaser trailer 2017 from Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams, and Stephen King:
