Premieres: 2015, Hulu Stephen King has sort of a varying track record when it comes to adaptations. His novels and short stories have provided source material to some of the most haunting (The Shining), dramatic (Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption) and disturbing (Misery) films ever made. Then there's Maximum Overdrive, a thriller about evil trucks with scary faces the man himself directed. That was less good. Aiming for the more prestige side of things is 11/22/63, the upcoming adaptation of his recent novel about a man who discovers a portal back to September 9, 1958, at precisely 11:58 am in the back of a diner, obviously and is tasked with using it to stop the assassination of John F Kennedy. Like you do. He just wanted some pancakes. Obviously there's some additional drama in there, with divorced teacher Jake Epping assuming he can also stop the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King's death and saving a disabled student from being attacked by his alcoholic father as a child. The series is being produced by Warner Bros Television and J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions, with King writing the scripts, with the show due to drop on streaming service Hulu this year.
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