Tim Robbins and Lizzy Caplan will co-star in the second season of Hulus Stephen King anthology series, Castle Rock.
Like the first season, Season Two of Castle Rock will incorporate elements and characters from various King books. Robbins whos notably returning to the King universe for the first time since 1994s The Shawshank Redemption will play Reginald Pop Merrill, a crime family patriarch pulled from Kings novella, The Sun Dog,Entertainment Weekly reports.Caplan will portray Annie Wilkes, the crazed nurse/superfan from 1987s Misery, who was famously portrayed by Kathy Bates in Rob Reiners 1990 film adaptation.
Season 2 of Castle Rock finds Pop dying of cancer and his nephew, John Ace Merrill (Garrett Hedlund), taking over the family business. Ace, however, begins to threaten the peace with neighboring Jerusalems Lot, despite the best efforts of his brother, Chris (Matthew Alan). In Jerusalems Lot, Dr. Nadia Omar (Yusra Warsama) runs a rural hospital, where her rational and scientific mind begins to face a supernatural test, and her brother, Abdi Omar (Barkhad Abdi), takes charge in opening a Somali community center.
Arriving in the middle of this heightened tension between Castle Rock and Jerusalems Lot is Annie Wilkes and her homeschooled teenage daughter (Elsie Fisher), who begins to question her mothers sanity.
A premiere date for Season 2 of Castle Rock has yet to be announced.