Bill Skarsgård will be starring in his second Stephen King project in under a year when Hulu’s new anthology series Castle Rock debuts this summer. The vibe of the show and his character will be much different than what we saw from him in last year’s It.
The J.J. Abrams production will be combining several storylines from Stephen King novels in order to create a spooky series that will take us inside Castle Rock, a town in Maine where many of King’s novels, including Cujo, The Dead Zone, and Needful Things, are set.
The show follows Henry Deaver (Moonlight‘s Andre Holland) as he returns to Castle Rock after getting a call from a mysterious man inside Shawshank Prison. The man, played by Skarsgård, is locked in solitary confinement and says he will only talk to Deaver, although the two have never met.
What Types of Scares Will We See?
Although the show is still shrouded in mystery, FANDOM caught up with some of the cast at Comic-Con to find out just how scary the new series will be.
“Stephen King is a writer who kind of does it all, and part of what we wanted to do in this show was to deliver on the psychological suspense, the creepiness, and, at times, hopefully, the grab-you-by-the-throat scares,” creator and executive producer Dustin Thomason told FANDOM.
“The early episodes we’re really building the world of Castle Rock and starting to understand who lives here and who has stayed and who comes back and who tries to escape,” he added. “And I think that hopefully some of the horrors of being an everyday human are also on the page through the characters.”
Skarsgård: From It to Castle Rock
Many of the stars of the new series have already acted in Stephen King projects in the past. In addition to Skarsgård, Sissy Spacek will be returning to the horror author’s world 42 years after starring in Carrie.
But with Skarsgård’s portrayal of Pennywise the Clown having just happened last year, fans are curious to see how Castle Rock will compare to It. The actor explained the chills that audience members get while watching the show will come from a totally different place than they did in It.
“It is a very ‘AAAH!’ kind of intense ride that way and this is more creepy than horror,” Skarsgård revealed. “Maybe even more mystery than horror. But it’s supposed to feel sort of malevolent and more of a slow build of weird mystery, as opposed to your traditional horror. It is more jump scares and a tense visual ride, and this is more of a slow fog build.”
Fans will get to see just how scary Castle Rock really is when it makes its debut on Hulu on July 25. The first three episodes will begin streaming that day, with subsequent episodes believed to be released weekly after that.
