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Castle Rock is coming to an end at Hulu. The streaming platform is calling it quits on the drama series, The Hollywood Reporter reports. After first debuting in 2018, the show is ending after two seasons, around a year after the most recent season of Castle Rock debuted on Hulu in October 2019.
The Lizzy Caplan-starring series takes place in the fictional town of Castle Rock, where many of horror author Stephen King’s stories have taken place. Castle Rock comes from creators Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomaso, and premiered with a Season 1 cast starring André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgård, Jane Levy, and Sissy Spacek.
As the show continued into Season 2, Caplan was cast as a younger version of the Misery character Annie Wilkes. Paul Sparks, Barkhad Abdi, Yusra Warsama, Elsie Fisher, Matthew Alan and Tim Robbins also starred. In an interview with Collider last year, Thomason shared his plans for a potential Season 3.
“Sam and I really tried to map things out broadly, from the beginning, and you’ll start to see some of that, as the later episodes come. The plan was always to have an interconnected set of stories and, while every season would be its own launching point, there would be this fabric of Stephen’s multi-verse, if you will, that always bubbled beneath it, and a unity to the stories that existed,” he said, adding, “When we get to season 3, I hope that there will a continuation of what we’ve done in this season and an expansion, and the audience will start to feel that there was a plan from the beginning”
Thankfully, we have another King series lined up after losing this one. CBS All Access is rolling out their own adaptation of The Stand this winter, premiering their miniseries with Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård and more starting Dec. 17.
Here’s what else you may have missed today:
Jeremy Irons has a new starring role. The Watchman actor is set to lead Netflix‘s film adaptation of “Munich,” a 2017 novel by author Robert Harris, Variety reports. The film will take us back to 1938, when Europe is on the brink of war. “Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain’s government desperately seeks a peaceful solution,” the film’s description reads. “With the pressure building, British civil servant Hugh Legat and Paul von Hartmann, a German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger.” Irons will take on the role of Neville Chamberlain, and we can expect to see Munich when it drops on Netflix next year.
Spotted: director Karena Evans signing onto her latest project. The creative force behind multiple Drake music videos is set to direct HBO Max‘s new Gossip Girl reboot, Vulture reports. Evans will direct the first two episodes of the series, which is set to star a fresh bunch of New York City teens, including Whitney Peak, Emily Alyn Lind, Savannah Smith, Tavi Gevinson, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez, Jason Gotay, Thomas Doherty, Adam Chanler-Berat, and Zion Moreno. Writer and executive producer Joshua Safran confirmed the news in a press release. “I couldn’t be more excited for Karena to launch the new series,” he said. “Her vision, voice, and passion are incomparable. It’s an honor and a privilege to get to work with her, and I can’t wait for everyone to see what she has planned.”
