"Castle Rock," an upcoming TV series which hails from JJ Abrams and Stephen King has found a home in Hulu.
According to Deadline, the digital channel has given Castle Rock a straight-to-series order on Tuesday. The news comes after a teaser trailer for the show has been released, which now has more than one million hits on Youtube. The first season of Castle Rock will be composed of ten episodes - with a premiere date yet to be determined.
Co-produced by Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, Collider reported that the show is being described as a "psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse. Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller - a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories."
"Castle Rock" marks as a reunion project for Hulu, King, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV after working on the event series "11.22.63," which starred James Franco and was based on King's novel. Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, who developed the project for television, serve as executive producers along with Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Liz Glotzer.
With production set to begin this year, Castle Rock's casting information and location sites are expected to be announced in the coming months. The series will stream exclusively in the U.S. on Hulu and Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution will distribute globally.
