Want some really, really good news? Greg Yaitanes, who directed the standout, unforgettable episode “The Queen” for the first season of Hulu’s “Castle Rock,” is seated back in the director’s chair for Season 2, which is now in production. Yaitanes is directing the premiere episode as well as another episode later in the season, Indiewire reports today!
Season 2, which will prominently feature the nearby town of Jerusalem’s Lot(!), is centered on the origin story of Misery character Annie Wilkes, and Yaitanes teases a more urgent season.
“We wanted to evolve the look on a visual level, and move [more] and be with characters more,” he told the site. “One of the things that worked well with ‘The Queen’ was point of view. That episode had a strong point of view of character, so [we’re] bringing that into Annie’s story and giving the show […] more urgency this year, more tension. We’re taking the things that worked well in Season 1 and taking them up a level.”
He added, “We’re seeing more of Castle Rock than we did last year. It’s set back in the town. We’re going back to familiar places, and new places the story didn’t touch on.”
Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) will be returning to the world of Stephen King in Season 2, alongside Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield) and Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade).
Caplan is playing iconic Misery character Annie Wilkes!
Series regulars also include Yusra Warsama, Barkhad Abdi, Matthew Alan, John Hoogenakker and Paul Sparks.
In Season 2, a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, Stephen King’s nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
“Castle Rock” is produced by J.J. Abrams.
Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason developed the series for Hulu.
