Chapelwaite red band trailer released for Epix Stephen King series

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

The Stephen King-inspired series Chapelwaite is scheduled to make its premiere on Epix at 10pm Eastern time on Sunday, August 22nd, and today a red band trailer has arrived online to entice genre fans to tune in. Check it out in the embed above! The trailer earns its red band status by showing glimpses of a whole lot of violence and bloodshed. I have to admit, I did not expect this show to get so messy.

Chapelwaite is based on King's short story Jerusalem's Lot, which was a prequel to his novel Salem's Lot. The ten episode series is set in the 1850s and follows 

Captain Charles Boone, 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.

Adrien Brody (Predators) plays Captain Charles Boone. He is joined in the cast by Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek), who is taking on the role of 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 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. 

Produced by Epix Studios, Chapelwaite is executive produced by Brody, Donald De Line, Jason Filardi, Peter Filardi, and Burr Steers.

The Jerusalem's Lot short story can be found in the King collection Night Shift, which is available for purchase at THIS LINK.