Novel hitting shelves this November
The folks at Variety are reporting Jonathan Demme has optioned the rights to adapt Stephen King’s novel “11/22/63.”
Haven’t heard of it yet? Well, that’s because it hasn’t been released, although we have talked about it before. The novel hits stores on November 8.
Demme, known to the horror crowd for The Silence of the Lambs, will write, produce and direct “11/22/63.”
Of course, Stephen King’s properties are no stranger to being snatched up by Hollywood before they even see print so the fact that the rights “11/22/63” have already been snatched up comes as no surprise.
Here’s the publisher’s synopsis of King latest, massive tome:
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 studentsâa gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunningâs 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 insaneâand insanely possibleâmission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakeâs 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 lifeâa life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
Source: Showblitz
