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Jonathan Demme is working on a hosts of projects, including Stephen King’s 11/22/63. He talked a little about the project with The Playlist. The entire article is great. Here is the portion about King:
Finally, Demme is hard at work with Stephen King on an adaptation of the writer’s 2011 novel, “11/22/63,” about a man who travels back in time in an attempt to thwart the assassination of JFK. “Stephen and I are working together on the script right now. After all these years, what I’ve come to understand is don’t plan the script that you’re really thrilled with," he explained. "At the heart of '11/22/63' is this profound, magnificent challenge that our hero is faced with, which is that the past doesn’t want to be changed. Our boy Jake has his work cut out for him if he really wants to change history. He really has to go up against it. And he may or may not succeed."I really like this quote:
As to whether the film’s storyline will wind up the same as the novel, Demme in non-committal. “You never know. There’s a dozen movies in '11/22/63.' We’re finding the one that we think is kind of the best of all. And Stephen is wide open. The book is the book. The movie will be something different. It’s great fun working with him.”A dozen movies in 11/22/63 ! That's so true, though I never thought of it that way. The thing could be an entire series! It is a sci-fi, romance, political thriller, alternate history, action story.
The article is titled, "Jonathan Demme Says ‘Zeitoun’ Still Need Financing, Talks Adapting Stephen King's ’11/22/63’ by Jeff Otto. HERE.
I never realized how much I'd shrugged off the whole idea of an 11/22/63 film until this article caught me off guard.
ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting the way Demme and King aregoing about this script.
On the one hand, I always wanted the novel to be more sedate, to stop and take in the historical details and the olitics and social mores of the decade it was set in. Something which made me wonder if that was in the orginal thousand page unedited draft of the novel.
There's a lot of development potential in that aspect of the story if you ask me.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
ChrisC