Hulu, J.J. Abrams, and Stephen King's horror series CASTLE ROCK will feature TRUE BLOOD and CLOVERFIELD actress Lizzy Caplan as a young Annie Wilkes from King's classic MISERY. And today we have word that she'll be arriving in the infamous King township this October!
The official CASTLE ROCK Twitter account broke the news tweeting:
Even though I found the first season to be mostly boring with a capital B, I'm still looking forward to this seasons season – if only to see if the powers that be behind the scenes have learned from their "mistakes." How excited are YOU for more CASTLE ROCK? Let us know below!
The upcoming and highly-anticipated second season of CASTLE ROCK has begun filming in Orange, Massachusetts. Season 2 will bring us
A feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes (Caplan), Stephen King’s nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
On top of Caplan as young Annie Wilkes, the season features Tim Robbins as Reginald “Pop” Merrill, Paul Sparks as John “Ace” Merril, Elsie Fisher as Annie’s home-schooled teenage daughter, Joy, Yusra Warsam is Dr. Nadia Omar, Barkhad Abdi will portray Abdi Omar, Matthew Alan plays Chris Merrill, and John Hoogenakker will play a man with a complicated connection to MISERY's Annie Wilkes. Robin Weigert as Annie’s mother, Crysilda Wilkes, Sarah Gadon will play Rita Green, a vengeful woman from Annie’s past, Alison Wright, will play a kind-hearted local who explores the town’s evil history, and Greg Grunberg is Sheriff Boucher, a local official, who faces off against a brewing, dark force in Castle Rock.
Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason continue to serve as executive producers along with J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson, Vince Calandra, Stephen King, and Liz Glotzer. The show hails from Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. We'll let you know when we hear more!
Misery arrives in CASTLE ROCK beginning on October 23, 2019.