The works of prolific horror creator Stephen King are getting one other TV adaptation.
Premium community EPIX introduced as we speak that Chapelwaite, based mostly on the brief story Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King and starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Emily Hampshire, will premiere on Sunday, August 22 at 10pm ET/PT.
Set within the 1850s, the collection follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his household of three youngsters to his ancestral dwelling within the small, seemingly sleepy city of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his spouse dies at sea.
Nonetheless, Charles will quickly must confront the secrets and techniques of his household’s sordid historical past, and struggle to finish the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
Hampshire performs Rebecca Morgan, an formidable younger girl who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke Faculty, and has returned dwelling with an advance to write down a narrative for the brand new and prestigious Atlantic Journal.
Her author’s block lifts when Boone arrives on the town together with his youngsters, and regardless of her mom’s protests, Rebecca applies to be governess of the notorious Chapelwaite manor and the Boone household with a purpose to write about them.
In doing so, Rebecca is not going to solely craft the subsequent nice gothic novel, she’ll unravel a thriller that has plagued her family for years.
The forged alone must be sufficient to garner vital viewership.
Add to that that the spooky and nicely acquired brief story Jerusalem’s Lot is the catalyst for Chapelwaite, and it is a no-brainer.
Jerusalem’s Lot is the precursor to King’s profitable Salem’s Lot, which can be getting an replace within the type of a function movie.
First printed in King’s brief assortment, Night time Shift, Jerusalem’s Lot was advised by means of a collection of letters and diary entries, largely attributed to Brody’s Charles Boone.
Within the teaser under, a baby asks if the home is protected. Nicely, youngster, the home on this story is claimed to be a “unhealthy home,” with a historical past of all of the issues that make a home lower than a house — disappearances, bumps within the evening, and different unhappy occasions.
It must be a really enjoyable watch!
Along with Brody, the collection is government produced by Donald De Line (Prepared Participant One, Wayward Pines), Jason Filardi, Peter Filardi and Burr Steers. Chapelwaite is produced by EPIX Studios.
Try the trailer now, and tell us for those who’re of a thoughts to observe the collection when it debuts on August 22 at 10/9c on EPIX.
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