"Misery" loves company and it'll get plenty in the second season of Hulu's "Castle Rock."

The anthology, which weaves together many of Stephen King's characters and locations, will have a "Misery" prequel theme. Kathy Bates made famous and won an Oscar for in the 1990 film.

Season 2 will explore a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when Annie, King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.

Also ing the cast are:

  • "Eighth Grade" breakout Elsie Fisher as Joy, Annie's home-schooled teenage daughter who is starting to have questions about her mother's sanity
  • Tim Robbins as Reginald "Pop" Merrill, the famed patriarch of King's iconic crime family who is dying of cancer and at a reckoning with his family (the character was featured in King's 1990 novella "The Sun Dog")
  • Garrett Hedlund as John "Ace" Merrill, the town of Castle Rock's legendary bully who is taking over his uncle Po's business and threatening a fragile peace with nearby Jerusalem's Lot (featured in 1991's "Needful Things")
  • Yusra Warsama ("Call the Midwife") as Dr. Nadia Omar, the Harvard-trained Somali medical director of a rural hospital in Jerusalem's Lot whose rational and scientific mind will be put to the test
  • Barkhad Abdi ("Captain Phillips") as Abdi Omar, Nadia's tough, older brother who leads the charge to build a Somali community center that will deepen the roots of his people in Maine
  •  Matthew Alan ("13 Reasons Why") as Chris Merrill, Pop's nephew and Ace's brother who struggles to keep peace between the Merrills and the Somali community.

It's unclear if any Season 1 cast will return. The show will feature a new storyline every season.

"Castle Rock" Season 2 does not yet have a premiere date.