We’re just under a month away from the TV series adaptation of the Stephen King novel 11/22/63, which lands on February 15th, 2016. The President’s Day of the Hulu original series now has a new trailer out for it as well that goes bigger in making clear what it is that it wants to do and some of the overall approach and style about it. .
The cast includes James Franco as Jake Epping, Sarah Gadon as Sadie Dunhill, Chris Cooper as Al Templeton, Daniel Webber as Oswald, Cherry Jones as Marguerite Oswald, George MacKay as Bill Turcotte, Lucy Fry as Marina Oswald and Leon Rippy as Harry Dunning.
Plot concept: Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out.
President John F. Kennedy is dead.
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away . . . but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke. . . . Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten . . . and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
