11/22/63

[8wid]

^For what the plot structure is still as cliche and the ending just as predictable. The theme of these stories is that we will never truly know what could have been or we don't know what will happen if we meddle with things we don't comprehend.

I would rather have seen what JFK had been like if he was President in his second term, a possible third one as well.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

or don't read it, whatever. It's not up to me to educate you.

 

[Motown Marvel]

Jonathan Demme speaks 11/22/63

Posted: January 23, 2012, 23:34:46
Section: Film » 11/22/63

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.


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WTF? Um....Neil Young is Canadian....

 

[humbdrumb]

Actually, things would probably be far worse if Kennedy lived. Kennedy was incapable of working with Congress, despite them being of his party and his ego prevented him from utilizing LBJ more (despite Johnson being a far more accomplished and adept statesman). Johnson was ultimately able to use Kennedy's death and his political talents and clout to push through legislation such as medicare/medicaid (and the whole of the Great Society plan), the Civil Rights Act, and get the space race properly started. None of this would have been done under Kennedy.

Yup. Kennedy was very politically minded and partisan. Dare I say, a little right wing. He didn't want to do anything to jeopardize the next election, so we would have likely gotten a very watered down version of the bill to please Southern Dixiecrats, or simply not even had a bill at all. JFK is so pumped up by his good looks and his amazing speeches, but he wasn't nearly as effective at getting legislation through as LBJ was. If it weren't for Vietnam, LBJ would probably be remembered as one of our better presidents.

 

[8wid]

^I imagine JFK would have managed to get the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act passed in his second term, but his withdrawal from Vietnam in 65 would have allowed the country to fall to communism and his affairs would have gotten much head wind. There would not have been massive student protests against womens' rights and a Vietnam War though, nor the inflation that happened afterwards.

 

[redhawk23]

Finally finished the book, took me a while as I had to read two books for class in the meantime. Liked it quite a bit. Alot of the stuff tying it to "It" was a bit self indulgent on King's part, but this book definitely throws a lot of twists and such in. I was not expecting the love story to be as integral to the plot as it is. Didn't seem forced in or anything though.

Setting the portal 5 years before the end goal, and setting up the struggle against the "obdurate past" was a good move on King's part I think.

I think the choice of director for this is quite good.

 

[:eek:]

Stephen King's 11/22/63 Loses Jonathan Demme
Source: The Playlist
December 6, 2012



Shortly before Stephen King's 11/22/63http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=81004 was published last year, The Silence of the Lambs' Jonathan Demme secured the rights to the tale to produce, write and direct a screen adaptation.

Now it appears Demme is no longer involved.

He told The Playlist recently that the project is "off the table" after he could not see eye to eye with King regarding what the film should be.

"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 be should be out of the script," he told the site.

In the novel...

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.

Should the screen adaptation attract new talent, we'll let you know, but for now consider 11/22/63 a project that's on ice.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Well ****. I had forgotten about this but it seems they haven't made much progress anyway. Hopefully someone else will pick this up.

 

[Rocketman]

All together now...

NOLAN!
NOLAN!
NOLAN!

Spoiler

Seriously. A time travel movie. Written by Stephen King. Directed by Christopher Nolan.

 

[Evan Drew]

Quantum Leap tackled this concept a dozen or so years ago and the twist was that both the President and the First Lady were assassinated in the original timeline. Leaping back in time, into Lee Harvey Oswald among others, Sam was able to save her, but could not save the President.

That was a GREAT take on the 'What If' scenario. We only know the altered history that Sam was able to create.

 

[bullets]

Speaking of Nolan , I think it's time for him to announce his next project.

I like time travel films , especially when they are done right. Hopefully they find a good director for this.