Following Friday night's big announcement that Stephen King and J.J. Abrams have teamed up for a Castle Rock series, it's now been announced that the series has been given a ten-episode order that will start production later this year, and official details on what to expect from the show have also been unveiled.
According to THR, the Castle Rock series has the following official description:
"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."
A Warner Bros. TV series that will be released on Hulu, Castle Rock is written and executive produced by Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason (Manhattan), and is expected to follow characters from King's stories that are set in or refer to the town of Castle Rock, with THR revealing that the "ongoing series" will focus on a new batch of characters and situations each season while still referencing the events of previous seasons, although at this point, the series only has a 10-episode order.
Based on King's stories and characters, Castle Rock is executive produced by Abrams, Ben Stephenson, and Liz Glotzer under their Bad Robot banner, with Shaw and Thomason also serving as executive producers.
Casting details and a premiere date for Castle Rock are unknown at this time, but we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more information is revealed.