![]() ![]() Along with its notable characters, Castle Rock features several iconic locations including the Shawshank State Penitentiary, Juniper Hill Asylum, Salem's Lot, and the Marsten House. ![]() There are several notable alumnae familiar to King's cinematic universe in the series including Sissy Spacek of Carrie fame as well as Bill Skarsgård, who portrayed Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Andy Muschietti's two-part adaptation of IT. In Castle Rock season 2, the entire cast and characters changed to focus on Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan), who is known for her role in torturing the author Paul Sheldon in King's 1987 novel, Misery. Despite the fact that she never existed in the Castle Rock literary canon, she was utilized as the villain due to her lack of backstory that the showrunners ultimately provided to her. Castle Rock season 1 sets up the mysterious and unsettling atmosphere of Castle Rock, Maine, where the Shawshank State Penitentiary holds prisoners with otherworldly qualities. King watched his mother die from it only a year or so before he wrote Roadwork, and his personal pain is there on every page: in the loss of Fred, the way that Barton can't forget him, can't. ![]()
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