Silence of the Lambs Director Jonathan Demme Options Rights to Stephen King’s 11/22/63
Variety
http://www.showblitz.com/2011/08/jonathan-demme-options-stephen-kings-next-to-write-direct-and-produce.html
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Though we’re still months away from the release of Stephen King’s new time travel inspired novel, 11/22/63, the movie rights to the book have already been optioned. Yep, Hollyweird moves that quickly!
According to Variety Jonathan Demme has optioned feature film rights to Stephen King’s upcoming novel and is set to write, direct and produce.
Look for 11/22/63 to hit book shelves on November 8th, 2011.
Synopsis
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas; President Kennedy died; and the world changed. If you had the chance to change history, would you? Would the consequences be worth it?
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.
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