Lots of big news for Stephen King fans lately, and this time it’s actually good! Silence of the Lambs director Johnathan Demme has signed on to write and direct the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s forthcoming novel about the JFK assassination 11/22/63. The book doesn’t come out until November (of course) but apparently Demme liked the synopsis so much he snapped up the rights.
11/22/63 is the story of Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine who stumbles upon a time portal to 1958 in his friend Al’s diner. Al wants to use the portal to prevent the assassination of Kenneday 5 years later. Jake agrees to help and mayhem ensues. I like King AND Kennedy so this should be a real treat. Maybe Marilyn will make an appearance. I’d love to see what King does with her. Also, considering this takes place partially in 1958 maybe we’ll get a glimpse of a young Roland D. LeBay and his shiny new Plymouth Fury, Christine.
Also hitting the intarwebs this week was the news that Harry Potter wonder-twins David Yates and Steve Kloves are tackling King’s opus The Stand for Warner Brothers. The Stand was about 10,000 pages long and will probably spread out into 2 movies if they are smart about it. I’m a big fan of splitting up large novels for the screen since the other option is to dump loads of backstory/side plots and what not.
Maybe all this interest in King’s work will get The Dark Tower rolling again.
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