Emily Hampshire, best known for the acclaimed Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek, is set to join a Stephen King adaptation television series, an intriguing period piece chronicling the origins of one of the author’s signature horror novel, Salem’s Lot.
The horror series, set for premium cable channel Epix, is titled Chapelwaite, and will adapt “Jerusalem’s Lot,” the 1978 short story prequel to King’s 1975 vampire outbreak epic, Salem’s Lot, chronicling the 1850s-set events that initially brought darkness to the novel’s sleepy Maine town setting. Indeed, Hampshire has joined Chapelwaite for a lead role, set opposite her previously announced co-star, Oscar winner Adrien Brody.
The series will center on Captain Charles Boone (Brody), a widower left to care for his three children at his family’s ancestral home, the titular Chapelwaite, where he is forced to confront a hidden darkness that has endured for generations. Hampshire will play Rebecca Morgan, who...
The horror series, set for premium cable channel Epix, is titled Chapelwaite, and will adapt “Jerusalem’s Lot,” the 1978 short story prequel to King’s 1975 vampire outbreak epic, Salem’s Lot, chronicling the 1850s-set events that initially brought darkness to the novel’s sleepy Maine town setting. Indeed, Hampshire has joined Chapelwaite for a lead role, set opposite her previously announced co-star, Oscar winner Adrien Brody.
The series will center on Captain Charles Boone (Brody), a widower left to care for his three children at his family’s ancestral home, the titular Chapelwaite, where he is forced to confront a hidden darkness that has endured for generations. Hampshire will play Rebecca Morgan, who...
- 3/4/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
One of the most unexpected Oscar nominations this year came for a German film in the thick of the foreign-language race that managed to score love elsewhere: Caleb Deschanel’s cinematography notice for Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s “Never Look Away,” a three-hour epic inspired by the life of artist Gerhard Richter.
For Deschanel, a beloved industry veteran with six nominations dating back to 1983’s “The Right Stuff,” it was as much a shock to him as it was to the awards season chattering class.
“You sort of figure, ‘No chance; not enough people have seen the movie,'” Deschanel says, calling from London where he’s in the middle of production on Jon Favreau’s effects-driven remake of “The Lion King,” due out in July. “But I had so many calls from people who loved this movie.”
It’s easy to see why Deschanel’s colleagues in the cinematography branch,...
For Deschanel, a beloved industry veteran with six nominations dating back to 1983’s “The Right Stuff,” it was as much a shock to him as it was to the awards season chattering class.
“You sort of figure, ‘No chance; not enough people have seen the movie,'” Deschanel says, calling from London where he’s in the middle of production on Jon Favreau’s effects-driven remake of “The Lion King,” due out in July. “But I had so many calls from people who loved this movie.”
It’s easy to see why Deschanel’s colleagues in the cinematography branch,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
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