Castle Rock: all the updates, trailers, and commentary for Hulu’s Stephen King-inspired show – The Verge

Hulu’s Castle Rock is getting a second season

2018-08-15T11:32:05-04:00

Hulu has announced that its Stephen King anthology show Castle Rock will return for a second season. With its renewal, it will follow a brand-new storyline.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hulu says that Castle Rock is the streaming service's most "most successful first-season original launch." When exactly the show will return is yet to be announced.

Dustin Thomason, the show's executive producer and writer, confirmed to THR that the show is, indeed, an anthology, which means that when the show does come back, it will do so with a new cast and storyline. He adds that it'll take place in the same universe, true to the show's impressio …

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Castle Rock is the perfect excuse to start watching Haven on Netflix

2018-07-27T16:20:08-04:00

There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it's hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge's Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services, and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend.

What to watch

"Sarah," a third-season episode of the supernatural drama Haven. Based loosely on the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid, the series stars Emily Rose as Audrey Parker, an outsider to the Maine island community of Haven, who has the ability to r …

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Castle Rock and Sharp Objects are the same show with different skins

2018-07-26T14:16:09-04:00

No matter how splintered the cinematic landscape gets, the "twin films" phenomenon keeps resurfacing. Whether it comes from studios trying to ride each other's publicity coattails, or just parallel evolution as different producers chase the same ideas through the zeitgeist, it's still fairly common to see, say, the dystopian evil-twin fantasies Double and The Enemy coming out in the same year, or White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen - both White House invasion action movies - fighting for supremacy at the box office.

"Twin TV shows" don't get nearly the same amount of cultural attention, though, maybe because so much of television operat …

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Hulu’s Stephen King anthology series Castle Rock gets a new teaser

2018-05-02T10:36:32-04:00

Hulu just released a new teaser for its upcoming drama Castle Rock that hints at how the mysterious Maine town turned out the way it did. The series, created by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions, is inspired by the interconnected Stephen King universe.

In the teaser, Lost's Terry O'Quinn's gentle voiceover describes the "original sin" of Castle Rock, a fictional town in which a number of King's novels are set, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, and The Dark Half. Castle Rock will feature themes and characters from across King's work, as well as a few new characters created just for the TV series and several actors from previous iterations of K …

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Hulu’s Castle Rock will be an anthology show that connects the worlds of Stephen King

2017-10-09T09:27:31-04:00

Warner Bros. unveiled a first look at its upcoming Stephen King-inspired show Castle Rock with a teaser trailer at New York Comic Con today, which included details about a new cast and story planned for season 2.

In February, J.J. Abrams announced a new show for Hulu that would be heavily inspired by King's enormous, interconnected world, set in the familiar location of Castle Rock, but with few other details. The show is expected to begin streaming at some point in 2018.

Dustin Thomason, the show's executive producer and creator, described it as an original story that "brushes up against the characters" from King's many stories. He said …

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Stephen King and J.J. Abrams are going to show Stranger Things how it’s done

2017-02-17T21:27:44-05:00

Last year, Netflix scored an unexpected hit with Stranger Things, a show that combined the influence of Stephen King and Steven Spielberg into one glorious, retro-80s treat. Audiences apparently weren't the only ones that noticed, because now King and Spielberg heir apparent J.J. Abrams have announced a Hulu project with its own Stranger Things-esque vibe called Castle Rock.

The announcement came today via the Twitter account of Abrams' Bad Robot Productions, with a mysterious, handwritten card from the filmmaker asking, "What is the hoax in the forest?" A link to the teaser trailer was also included, a short clip that rattles off many of K …

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