We all know Stephen King is a powerhouse in the horror field - his books have sold millions of copies and there is a movie based on almost every one of his novels and short stories, some good and some bad.
King's newest novel, 11/22/63 is due for release in November, and it has already been optioned by Demme. The novel, which follows a man who goes back in time to stop the assassination of J.F.K is said to be another hefty tome and is a surprisingly refreshing direction for the novelist.
I'm interested to see how the book plays out.
Demme, who is known for The Silence of the Lambs, will write, produce and direct the picture.
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
