NEWS - 11.22.63

Photos & Descriptions Of The charactes in 11/22/63

Posted: November 26, 2015, 00:20
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Here are photos and descriptions of all the main charactes in 11/22/63.


James Franco (Jake Epping / Jake Amberson)
- A recently divorced high school English teacher turned time traveler and spy. His mission: identify and stop the assassin (or assassins) of John F. Kennedy.


Sarah Gadon (Sadie Dunhill)
- The luminous, sharp librarian in 1960s Jodie, Texas. She falls in love with Jake, unaware of his double life.


Daniel Webber (Lee Harvey Oswald)
- One of the most discussed figures in American history, by turns vulnerable or violent, drifting or driven, and an enigma even to himself.


Lucy Fry (Marina Oswald)
- Lee Harvey Oswald’s new Russian wife. A knockout, challenged to make her way in a foreign country with her unpredictable husband.


Cherry Jones (Marguerite Oswald)
- The mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, as needy and difficult as her infamous son.


George Mackay (Bill Turcotte)
- A young, guileless bartender from 1960s Kentucky, Bill becomes Jake’s ally — and falls deeper into the mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald than he or Jake ever imagined.


Josh Duhamel (Frank Dunning)
- Harry Dunning’s father — the rakish town butcher, a man’s man, and a murderer.


T.R. Knight (Johnny Clayton)
- Sadie Dunhill’s repressed, controlling ex-husband.


Chris Cooper (Al Templeton)
- The irascible owner of Al’s Diner, a mentor/friend to Jake, and a time traveler pioneer. Al’s appeal to save Kennedy sends Jake back on his incredible mission.


Kevin J. O’Connor (Yellow Card Man)
- An enigmatic, eerie figure who appears to Jake periodically as a warning... or a threat.

King & Franco

Posted: July 29, 2015, 12:55
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James Franco posted this photo of him and King. Could that mean a cameo? I have no idea. King might just have been visiting the set.


Thanks to Herbert West

Josh Duhamel in 11/22/63

Posted: July 29, 2015, 01:31
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The Hollywood Reporter reports that Josh Duhamel joins the cast of 11/22/63.


Battle Creek alum Josh Duhamel has joined the cast of the Hulu miniseries from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Duhamel will play Frank Dunning, the father of Jake's student Harry Dunning (played by youngster Jack Fulton and Leon Rippy), in 1960s Kentucky. Frank is the rakish town butcher, a ladies' man with an effortless smile that everyone welcomes — except Jake, the only man who knows the full violence of which Frank is capable.

Read more here.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

11/22/63 to be filmed at Queen's Tavern in Ayr

Posted: May 25, 2015, 16:29
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Maybe that's why producers of the new Stephen King time-travel miniseries "11.22.63" appear poised to rent out this quaint, but quirky Stanley Street establishment — an old speakeasy where packs of university students have been known to launch D.U.S.T.E.D. (Drink Unsuspecting Small-Town Establishment Dry) raids of Tommyknocker mischief.

Read more here.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

T.R. Knight joins 11/22/63

Posted: May 18, 2015, 22:25
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T.R. Knight joins joins the cast for 11/22/63. Knight will play Johnny Clayton, a salesman in 1960s Texas who can't quite break up with his estranged wife, Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), even as she falls in love with Jake. Charismatic but controlling, Johnny confronts Jake in a tense encounter that puts Jake's double life at risk. But there's equal danger in what will happen if Jake and Sadie expose Johnny's own secrets.

11/22/63 will air on Hulu in 2016.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma.

Casting Announced For 11/22/63

Posted: April 7, 2015, 20:54
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Here is the cast for the upcoming 11/22/63.

Chris Cooper (Al Templeton) - The irascible owner of Al’s diner, a mentor/friend to Jake. His appeal to save Kennedy sends Jake on his incredible mission.

Sarah Gadon (Sadie Dunhill) - Sadie is the luminous, sharp librarian in 1960s Jodie, Texas. She falls in love with Jake, unaware of his double life.


Cherry Jones (Marguerite Oswald) - Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother. She is as needy and difficult as her infamous son.

Daniel Webber (Lee Harvey Oswald) - One of the most discussed figures in American history and an enigma even to himself.


George MacKay (Bill Turcotte) - A young, guileless bartender from 1960s Kentucky, Bill becomes Jake’s ally.

Lucy Fry (Marina Oswald) - Lee Harvey Oswald’s Russian wife. She is a knockout and challenged to make her way in a foreign country with her unpredictable husband.


Leon Rippy (Harry Dunning) - A kind, soft-spoken and damaged janitor at Jake’s school in 2015; his traumatic early life in the 1960’s has a surprising impact on Jake.

James Franco (Jake Epping) - A high school English teacher who travels back in time to try to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on the fateful date in American history.


Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald has signed on to direct and executive produce the first two hours of the nine-hour event series.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Sarah Gadon To Star In 11/22/63

Posted: April 7, 2015, 11:55
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reports that Sarah Gadon will play Sadie in 11/22/63.

Sarah Gadon will star in 11/22/63, based on the 2011 bestseller from Stephen King about Jake Epping (Franco), an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to 9/9/1958 and goes on a quest to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, his falling in love and a past that doesn’t want to be changed. Gadon plays the statuesque, smart and outspoken Sadie, a librarian at the Texas school Jake works at.

Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland) is directing the first two hours of the miniseres, with JJ Abrams and Bad Robot producing. Bridget Carpenter (The Red Road) has adapted the novel.


Thanks to Lou Sytsma

News About 11/22/63 Coming Today?

Posted: February 6, 2015, 09:22
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This cryptic message about the adaptation of 11/22/63 was posted on King’s message board yesterday. Guess we will see more info later today…

I wasn't given permission to post anything before my quitting time for the day but be on the lookout for an announcement coming soon about this project--possibly overnight. Once we get the official thumbs up, we'll be sure to post here as well.

11/22/63 Goes To Hulu

Posted: September 22, 2014, 23:12
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11/22/63 will be done as a nine-hour event at Hulu.

The streaming service has handed out a straight-to-series order for 11/22/63, a nine-hour event series from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and based on Stephen King's 2011 novel, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Bridget Carpenter (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, The Red Road) will pen the script and exec produce the drama alongside King and Bad Robot's Bryan Burk. Bad Robot's Kathy Lingg will co-exec produce and Athena Wickham will produce. The drama hails from Warner Bros. Television, where Abrams' Bad Robot is under an overall deal. 11/22/63 marks the first collaboration for Abrams with Hulu, which will be the stateside home for the series. Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution will distribute the series globally.

The project will be designed as a stand-alone story based on King’s novel. But if the show is successful, we’re told the opportunity exists to do additional seasons based on the same format. No release date has been determined.

Thanks to Anders Jakobson, Lou Sytsma and Rick Urban.

J.J. Abrams to put 11/22/63 on TV?

Posted: April 28, 2013, 00:07
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King's novel 11/22/63 may become a TV series with J.J. Abrams as an executive producer several sources reports on the Internet. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company and Warner Bros. TV are in talks to adapt the novel about a teacher who travels back in time and tries to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

This will probably be a TV series or miniseries, likely for cable.


More info to come...

Thanks to Lou, Ari and Neil.

Jonathan Demme exits 11/22/63

Posted: December 7, 2012, 10:34
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"That's off the table," he told The Playlist.

"This is a big book, with lots in it. And I loved certain parts of the book for the film more than Stephen did.

"We're friends, and I had a lot of fun working on the script, but we were too apart on what we felt should be and what should be out of the script.

"I had an option and I let it go. But I hope it's moving forward, I really want to see that movie."


Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Jonathan Demme speaks 11/22/63

Posted: January 23, 2012, 23:34
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Jonathan Demme recently spoke to MTV about his adaptation of King's 11/22/63.

"I'm adapting Stephen King's book," Demme told MTV News in Park City, UT over the weekend, where he was promoting the Slamdance debut of his "Neil Young Journeys" documentary. "I'm on the screenplay for it right now."

"It's a time travel story," he said of the plot. "Somebody from the 20th century gets a window back to the past and they go back with the goal of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. It's an extraordinary thriller. It's a great love story, also. It's a fabulous book."

Demme doesn't have a time-table on when the movie might start shooting — "First I have to get the script finished," he said, "and it's going really well" — but he did say that he feels more than a little bit privileged to be working with King after working with another American icon in Young.

"Sitting here with Neil Young, and working with Stephen King — these are two great American storytellers who use different mediums," he said.

Read more here

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Jonathan Demme to shoot 11/22/63

Posted: August 13, 2011, 00:33
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The Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme has picked up the film rights to 11/22/63. Demme will write, direct and produce the film through his Clinica Estetico production company. Ilona Herzberg, who tackled a different kind of JFK story in the Cuban Missile Crisis drama Thirteen Days, is also producing, and King himself will executive produce.

Thanks to Ari, Anders, Hans, Al and everyone else who's emailed me about this.

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