Epix is moving forward with a series based on the Stephen King short story Jerusalem's Lot, and the show has just found its female lead.
Emily Hampshire of the TV shows 12 Monkeys and Schitt's Creek has signed on to co-star with Adrien Brody in Chapelwaite, which is set in the 1850s and follows
Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
There's no mention of Hampshire's character in that synopsis, but she will be playing Rebecca Morgan,
an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College, and has returned home with an advance to write a story for the new and prestigious Atlantic Magazine. Her writer’s block lifts when Boone arrives in town with his children, and despite her mother’s protests, Rebecca applies to be governess of the infamous Chapelwaite manor and the Boone family in order to write about them. In doing so, Rebecca will not only craft the next great gothic novel, she’ll unravel a mystery that has plagued her own family for years.
In King's short story, Boone just moved into Chapelwaite and invested the mysteries of the town and Boone's family with his manservant, so this show is adding in several more characters. Which makes sense, since Epix has ordered ten episodes. Have to fill the time somehow.
Chapelwaite is scheduled to begin filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia next month, and is expected to premiere on Epix sometime this fall.
Showrunners Jason Filardi and Peter Filardi serve as executive producers alongside Donald De Line.