Writers getting themselves in over their heads in spooky small towns is Stephan King’s bread and butter, and the upcoming EPIX series “Chapelwaite” looks to be well within that tradition, if not exactly reinventing it with its dark blue and grey, expensive prestige television look.

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Set in the 1850s, “Chapelwaite” is based on King’s short story ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’ – a sort-of prequel to “Salem’s Lot,” King’s second published novel – following Captain Charles Boone (Adrien Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home, the infamous Chapelwaite manor, in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea.  

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Stephen King has yet another project coming to screens. Trying to keep track of every film or TV series in development based on a King book or story is damn-near impossible right now. And adding to the confusion is the new series that EPIX is developing, “Jerusalem’s Lot.”

According to Deadline, EPIX has ordered a 10-episode limited series based on the short story “Jerusalem’s Lot” that will star none other than Adrien Brody in the lead role.

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