Stephen King, J.J. Abrams to bring Kennedy Assasination Time Travel series 11/22/63 to Hulu

[wyldwolf]

Stephen King's time-travel novel about the Kennedy assassination is being adapted as a small-screen miniseries, with the author and J.J. Abrams on board as executive producers.

Streaming service Hulu said Monday that the nine-hour series, titled "11/22/63" after King's book, in which a high school teacher goes back in time to try to prevent the Nov. 22, 1963, killing of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.

"If I ever wrote a book that cries out for long-form, event-TV programming, '11/22/63' is it," King said in a statement. "I'm excited that it's going to happen, and am looking forward to working with J.J. Abrams and the whole Bad Robot team."

Added Abrams, "I've been a fan of Stephen King since I was in junior high school. The chance to work with him at all, let alone on a story so compelling, emotional and imaginative, is a dream."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hulu-sets-112263-series-based-on-stephen-king-novel/

I've read the book (actually twice.) Very engaging as it delves into various conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President Kennedy, political issues of the day, and what may have happened had the shooting been averted.

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I believe this has a political angle.

[NuclearDem]

1. And away we go...

[zappaman]

2. It's a good read.

King knows Oswald acted alone.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. It makes more sense than what really happened .

[IDemo]

3. The "Kill your grandfather" incongruity

The classic case against time travel into the past is the possibility for the creation of impossible scenarios, such as -- killing your grandfather, preventing your parents or you from being born and you from traveling back and...killing Grandpa.

If the assassination were prevented, what would the reason then become for the character to travel back in time?

[wyldwolf]

6. Stephen King’s Rules for Time Travel

King: Well, it’s a little bit more complex than these people realize. When Al the cook tells Jake about how you can go back to 1958 and walk around and do whatever you want, Jake asks, “What if you went back and killed your own grandfather?”

Wired: The grandfather paradox.

King: Right. And Al looks at him with wide eyes and says, “Why the fuck would you want to do that?” So, in a way, we bypassed that whole idea completely. But by the end of the book, they find out that what they think is basically harmless is very harmful.

Wired: Sort of a butterfly effect thing?

King: The butterfly effect has a part in it, but my thought was that every time you go back and change something, you create an alternate timeline.

http://www.wired.com/2011/11/pl_printking/
http://io9.com/5855798/stephen-king-explains-the-rules-of-time-travel-debate-over

[orpupilofnature57]

7. Until you went Back from the future he would still be assassinated .

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Cool. The book was really good.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. This grabbed me more than the ' Gunslinger ' series .

[Archae]

9. JJ Abrams?

Same guy who destroyed the Star Trek franchise?

[orpupilofnature57]

12. No, Stephen King the guy that brought us ' The Stand ' .

[liberal_at_heart]

10. I'm still waiting for a Dark Tower movie or tv series. The Dark Tower was considered his

magnum opus. If it is one of the only ones to never make it to the screen, I'm going to be very frustrated.

[Nye Bevan]

11. Great book. But at some point Jake should have said

"hey, this is kind of like Back to the Future 2!" Especially when he was doing the sports betting.