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Epix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot has found its leads. Deadline reports that the series, which will now be called Chapelwaite, has cast Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) as the female lead, opposite Adrien Brody.
Set in the 1850s, the series follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
Hampshire will play Rebecca Morgan, an ambitious young woman who left Preacher’s Corners to attend Mount Holyoke College, and has returned home with an advance to write a story for the new and prestigious Atlantic Magazine. Her writer’s block lifts when Boone (Brody) arrives in town with his children, and despite her mother’s protests, Rebecca applies to be governess of the infamous Chapelwaite manor and the Boone family in order to write about them. In doing so, Rebecca will not only craft the next great gothic novel, she’ll unravel a mystery that has plagued her own family for years.
There’s no word yet on a release date for the series, which will feature Jason and Peter Filardi as showrunners.
Jerusalem’s Lot was first published in King’s first short story collection, 1978’s Night Shift. An epistolary tale, it’s told through a series of letters from Boone to a friend named “Bones” and serves as a prequel to ‘Salem’s Lot. Chapelwaite will be the short story’s first screen adaptation, although it received an illustrated adaptation by artist Glenn Chadbourne in the first volume of Cemetery Dance’s The Secretary of Dreams collection.
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James2
10 years ago
Speaking of uniform colors, this is a question that’s always bugged me: Does anyone know why Roddenberry switched the colors for the Operations and Command divisions when TNG got started? I’ve never been able to find a satisfactory explanation.
Prof. Farnsworth: What the hell have you done, Fry?Fry: Relax! She can’t be my grandmother. I figured it all out.Prof. Farnsworth: Of course she’s your grandmother, you perverted dope! Look!Mildred: Come back to bed, deary.Fry: It’s impossible! I mean, if she’s my grandmother, who’s my grandfather?Prof. Farnsworth: Isn’t it obvious?Prof. Farnsworth: You are! – Roswell that ends (futurama), it applies to bashir in this episode
Timmy TwoPants
10 years ago
Dax’s legs.
James2
10 years ago
@2, I still crack up at how they later refered to the events of that episode as Fry doing the “Nasty in the Pasty.”
I hope it’s OK that I have nothing substantial to add except to say that I loved this episode.
— Michael A. Burstein
elijahzg
10 years ago
Just an incredible episode…
RichF
10 years ago
The number 1,771,561 is not just a random estimate. It happens to be 11 to the 6th power. (A litter of 11 over a period of time sufficient to produce 6 generations.) The space in the storage compartment and the amount of grain consumed might well have been irrelevant.
“Does anyone know why Roddenberry switched the colors for the Operations and Command divisions when TNG got started?”
One answer I heard was that when the cast was being fitted for their uniforms, it was decided that Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes looked better in red than yellow/gold.
DaveMB
10 years ago
I’m glad David Gerrold finally got on-screen. In the book made from his script of the TOS episode, he explains that he wrote the scene with Kirk dresssing down the barfighters just to provide an opportunity for him to be an extra. But the producers decided that he was too scrawny to be a convincing Starfleet ensign.
Sherman’s planet was named after Gerrold’s then-girlfriend.
That’s a wonderful book, by the way, an excellent introduction to the TV scriptwriting of the period.
“The Tribbles’ Pagh” by Ryan M. Williams in Strange New Worlds 09 follows up on the tribble infestation on the station (which spreads to Bajor before a solution is found).
There have been two different novel references to Lt. Watley. A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve Mollman alluded to her as Elaine Watley, ship’s historian, though she didn’t appear “onscreen” in the book. However, by the time I read that book, I’d already written her into Forgotten History as science officer Dierdre Watley. So I reconciled things by assuming that Dierdre was the character we saw in “Tribble-ations,” and the unseen Elaine was her sister. (Anyway, both of the 23rd-century starship historians we’ve seen, McGivers and Erickson, wore red for some reason, while Watley was in blue.)
Lucsly and Dulmur also appeared in two stories in Strange New Worlds II, “Gods, Fate and Fractals” by William Leisner and “Almost . . . But Not Quite” by Dayton Ward. There’s also a chapter featuring a version of them in Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many by Michael A. Martin. All of those works spelled Dulmur’s name “Dulmer,” and TNotM basically portrays the characters as an extended Mulder/Scully homage, even though that’s not how they were actually played onscreen. Bill Leisner correctly discerned that Lucsly and Dulmur are basically Joe Friday and Bill Gannon as time cops, and that strongly informed my own characterization.
This is a fun episode and all, but it does have some flaws. For one thing, there were only 430 people on the Enterprise, so the sudden arrival of four unfamiliar faces should’ve attracted suspicion right away. Also, it doesn’t make sense that Dax never met Spock in person before, considering that Curzon and Spock were in the Federation diplomatic corps together for decades. (Then again, this is the first time Jadzia Dax has met him, so maybe she just means that her memories of Spock filtered through Curzon’s point of view didn’t convey his attractiveness.)
Not to mention the casual treatment of the rather shocking revelation that the Bajorans have an Orb capable of time travel. I mean, TIME TRAVEL!!! That’s a huge, huge deal! And yet DS9 never uses the Orb of Time as anything more than a plot convenience.
And the final shot of Sisko meeting Kirk bugs me, since Avery Brooks is put in place of the rather shorter Barbara Luna, so he’s kind of unnaturally shrunken there.
I also kind of wish the change in the Klingon makeup hadn’t been made explicit. Up until this point, the official position pretty much seemed to be that Klingons had always been ridged despite what TOS depicted. Roddenberry even explicitly said on occasion that what we’d seen on TV had just been a rough approximation and it wasn’t until TMP that they were able to show us what Klingons “really” looked like. “Blood Oath” changing the makeup for Kor, Kang, and Koloth without explanation certainly supported that theory. But they couldn’t do this episode without showing old-style Klingons, so they had to canonize the change, and at that point things started to get kind of fanwanky.
Still, I’m grateful to this episode for introducing Lucsly, Dulmur, and the DTI, and to Jansen and Blessing for creating such memorably deadpan characterizations for me to build on in my DTI books.
Also, Charlie Brill was much, much more interesting here than he was in “The Trouble With Tribbles.” He was a standout among the cast this time. And the compositing FX and the recreations of the sets, costumes, and props were superb.
Speaking of uniform colors, this is a question that’s always bugged me: Does anyone know why Roddenberry switched the colors for the Operations and Command divisions when TNG got started? I’ve never been able to find a satisfactory explanation.
Prof. Farnsworth: What the hell have you done, Fry?Fry: Relax! She can’t be my grandmother. I figured it all out.Prof. Farnsworth: Of course she’s your grandmother, you perverted dope! Look!Mildred: Come back to bed, deary.Fry: It’s impossible! I mean, if she’s my grandmother, who’s my grandfather?Prof. Farnsworth: Isn’t it obvious?Prof. Farnsworth: You are! – Roswell that ends (futurama), it applies to bashir in this episode
Dax’s legs.
@2, I still crack up at how they later refered to the events of that episode as Fry doing the “Nasty in the Pasty.”
I hope it’s OK that I have nothing substantial to add except to say that I loved this episode.
— Michael A. Burstein
Just an incredible episode…
The number 1,771,561 is not just a random estimate. It happens to be 11 to the 6th power. (A litter of 11 over a period of time sufficient to produce 6 generations.) The space in the storage compartment and the amount of grain consumed might well have been irrelevant.
“Does anyone know why Roddenberry switched the colors for the Operations and Command divisions when TNG got started?”
One answer I heard was that when the cast was being fitted for their uniforms, it was decided that Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes looked better in red than yellow/gold.
I’m glad David Gerrold finally got on-screen. In the book made from his script of the TOS episode, he explains that he wrote the scene with Kirk dresssing down the barfighters just to provide an opportunity for him to be an extra. But the producers decided that he was too scrawny to be a convincing Starfleet ensign.
Sherman’s planet was named after Gerrold’s then-girlfriend.
That’s a wonderful book, by the way, an excellent introduction to the TV scriptwriting of the period.
Some other prose followups:
“The Tribbles’ Pagh” by Ryan M. Williams in Strange New Worlds 09 follows up on the tribble infestation on the station (which spreads to Bajor before a solution is found).
There have been two different novel references to Lt. Watley. A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve Mollman alluded to her as Elaine Watley, ship’s historian, though she didn’t appear “onscreen” in the book. However, by the time I read that book, I’d already written her into Forgotten History as science officer Dierdre Watley. So I reconciled things by assuming that Dierdre was the character we saw in “Tribble-ations,” and the unseen Elaine was her sister. (Anyway, both of the 23rd-century starship historians we’ve seen, McGivers and Erickson, wore red for some reason, while Watley was in blue.)
Lucsly and Dulmur also appeared in two stories in Strange New Worlds II, “Gods, Fate and Fractals” by William Leisner and “Almost . . . But Not Quite” by Dayton Ward. There’s also a chapter featuring a version of them in Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many by Michael A. Martin. All of those works spelled Dulmur’s name “Dulmer,” and TNotM basically portrays the characters as an extended Mulder/Scully homage, even though that’s not how they were actually played onscreen. Bill Leisner correctly discerned that Lucsly and Dulmur are basically Joe Friday and Bill Gannon as time cops, and that strongly informed my own characterization.
This is a fun episode and all, but it does have some flaws. For one thing, there were only 430 people on the Enterprise, so the sudden arrival of four unfamiliar faces should’ve attracted suspicion right away. Also, it doesn’t make sense that Dax never met Spock in person before, considering that Curzon and Spock were in the Federation diplomatic corps together for decades. (Then again, this is the first time Jadzia Dax has met him, so maybe she just means that her memories of Spock filtered through Curzon’s point of view didn’t convey his attractiveness.)
Not to mention the casual treatment of the rather shocking revelation that the Bajorans have an Orb capable of time travel. I mean, TIME TRAVEL!!! That’s a huge, huge deal! And yet DS9 never uses the Orb of Time as anything more than a plot convenience.
And the final shot of Sisko meeting Kirk bugs me, since Avery Brooks is put in place of the rather shorter Barbara Luna, so he’s kind of unnaturally shrunken there.
I also kind of wish the change in the Klingon makeup hadn’t been made explicit. Up until this point, the official position pretty much seemed to be that Klingons had always been ridged despite what TOS depicted. Roddenberry even explicitly said on occasion that what we’d seen on TV had just been a rough approximation and it wasn’t until TMP that they were able to show us what Klingons “really” looked like. “Blood Oath” changing the makeup for Kor, Kang, and Koloth without explanation certainly supported that theory. But they couldn’t do this episode without showing old-style Klingons, so they had to canonize the change, and at that point things started to get kind of fanwanky.
Still, I’m grateful to this episode for introducing Lucsly, Dulmur, and the DTI, and to Jansen and Blessing for creating such memorably deadpan characterizations for me to build on in my DTI books.
Also, Charlie Brill was much, much more interesting here than he was in “The Trouble With Tribbles.” He was a standout among the cast this time. And the compositing FX and the recreations of the sets, costumes, and props were superb.