Stephen King's 11/22/63 Picked Up by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot

According to Deadline, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot is working with Warner Bros. TV to land the rights to Stephen King's JFK assassination novel 11/22/63.

The site reports that the plan is to adapt the lengthy book for cable, either as a series or miniseries.

King's novel is officially described as:

"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."

11/22/63 would mark the second recent King pick-up. CBS is currently in production on adapting the author's novel Under the Dome as a miniseries, set to premiere this summer.

For the original report, head on over to Deadline.

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