New Castle Rock Trailer Sets Up Upcoming Hulu Series

The JJ Abrams-produced adaptation of Castle Rock, the location of many of Stephen King’s most haunting stories, is coming and a second trailer was released this week.

This trailer will hit during the Super Bowl, but audiences get a chance to see it now online. In the trailer, Henry Deaver (Andre Holland) comes back to town after getting a mysterious call from someone at the Shawshank Prison (yes, that Shawshank).

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In the trailer, Deaver comes back to Castle Rock and speaks to Alan Pangborn, the famed sheriff in Castle Rock. Pangborn replaced George Bannerman in the Stephen King novels as the town’s sheriff and dealt with both George Stark in The Dark Half and Leland Gaunt in Needful Things.

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That officially made him the final sheriff of Castle Rock in the books, so we know relatively when this story takes place. Bannerman was in The Dead Zone and died in Cujo, so this is between Cujo and Needful Things – unless this is an alternate reality, which is possible based on The Dark Tower).

Anyway, that is a little deep for most fans, so back to the trailer.

Scott Glenn (Silence of the Lambs) plays Pangborn this time around and asks who called Deaver, but the attorney does not know. However, there is then a newspaper clipping about a warden at Shawshank committing suicide, and then Deaver meets with a prisoner (It’s Bill Skarsgard).

After that, there are a lot of shots that homage various King works (people wearing monkey masks, an entrance to a sewer, a scary dog). It also has a nice JJ Abrams touch with Locke from Lost before a woman says she thinks something terrible is going to happen and Sissy Spacek (Carrie) says it is happening.

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This trailer is the second after a teaser was released in January. Castle Rock arrives this summer on Hulu with a 10-episode first season.

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