Stephen King Series 'Castle Rock' Finds Its Lead Actress With Melanie Lynskey

08/31/2017 06:06 pm EDT

Casting news continues to roll in about Castle Rock, the upcoming Hulu series based on the mythic town in which many of Stephen King's stories have connections to. Deadline has confirmed that Melanie Lynskey, star of HBO's Togetherness and the Sundance hit I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, has scored the lead female role in the series.

Lynskey will star as Molly Strand, who Deadline describes as "a woman with a rare medical condition who's barely scraping by as a real estate agent in a town where every third property is the site of someone's worst nightmare."

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The actress joins series star André Holland, who previously starred in the Cinemax series The Knick and the Academy Award-winning Moonlight. Holland stars as Henry, a death row attorney with a unique and complicated history in the town.

Earlier this week, it was announced that Jane Levy and Sissy Spacek joined the cast, with Levy playing Jackie, the death-obsessed, self-appointed historian of Castle Rock while Spacek will play Ruth Deaver, the estranged adoptive mother of Holland's Henry Deaver, a retired professor whose fading memories may hold a key to Castle Rock's unsettling past.

What's notable about Spacek's casting is that her breakout performance was in Brian de Palma's Carrie, in which she starred as a telekinetic teen who took revenge on those who had bullied her. That film was based on Stephen King's story.

The show's synopsis is as follows:

"A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Bodyand numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemptionare either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller — a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories."

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The series is set to go into production next year from Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television with J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson, Liz Glotzer, Sam Shaw, and Dustin Thomason serving as executive producers.

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