First Teaser Trailer For Stephen King & J.J. Abram’s ‘11.22.63’ Miniseries [Video]


As Stephen King fans wait with bated breath for Hulu’s eight-part adaptation of his exciting novel 11/22/63, a first teaser trailer has finally been released. Note the name of the miniseries has been adapted to show periods instead of slashes, thus it is dubbed 11.22.63.

As reported by The Verge, this first taste-test of the eight-part miniseries shows James Franco in the role of teacher Jake Epping, about to step through the door of a time-travel portal located in a local diner, one that will take him back to the year 1960.

As reported by Screen Crush, Chris Cooper, playing the role of Al Templeton, the owner of said diner in which the portal is located, is warning him that stepping through will take him back in time. He tells Epping he might think he’s crazy, but he needs him to prevent the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

“I’m gonna tell you something that’s gonna seem crazy.”

“You go through there, it’s 1960.”

“I need you to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.”

Enjoy the brief intro into 11.22.63 in the video included here, which culminates in a menacing whisper, “You shouldn’t be here.”

The Inquisitr reported a while back on the upcoming Hulu miniseries 11.22.63, offering up a couple of videos taken by fans in various Canadian towns, including Cambridge, Dunville, and Hamilton in Ontario. The videos showed the ongoing filming at that time, with James Franco doing his thing in the streets, dressed appropriately for the era.

It was later reported on the Inquisitr that the exciting miniseries is set to hit the Hulu website on President’s Day next year, namely February 15th, 2016.

Other stars of note to appear in the upcoming miniseries are Josh Duhamel as Frank Dunning, T.R. Knight as Johnny Clayton, Cherry Jones as Marguerite Oswald, Lucy Fry as Marina Oswald, and George MacKay as Bill Turcotte along with Sarah Gadon in the role of Jake Epping’s love interest in the past, Sadie Dunhill. The part of Lee Harvey Oswald is played by Daniel Webber.

Stephen King himself said how much he enjoyed writing the novel, which is a major change from his usual horror theme, saying he loved envisaging how something like this could completely change the world.

The eight-part miniseries version of 11.22.63 is being produced by the J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot and is Hulu’s biggest attempt at original programming since picking up The Mindy Project from Fox. Hoping to compete with Netflix in the online streaming market, 11.22.63 does, indeed, sound like an interesting option.

Meanwhile on the various forums, some fans are a little hesitant in getting too excited, saying that the recent series and adaptation of a Stephen King novel, Under the Dome ruined the whole story. However, as other true fans note, Under the Dome went wrong because due to its popularity, the series was extended, going way beyond the original story. With 11.22.63 tied to an eight-part miniseries, hopefully nothing can go wrong.

11.22.63 will be available exclusively to Hulu subscribers who are on the $7.99 monthly plan with commercials, or the ad-free $11.99 version.

In other recent and exciting news relating to novels by the popular author, Stephen King, it was reported that his popular Dark Tower series is heading to the big screen soon. The first movie will be based on the first book in the series The Gunslinger and will be dubbed The Dark Tower, set for release in theaters around January 13, 2017.

Other news, which was maybe not so well received by fans, was talk of the big screen remake of the horror story, It, featuring that terrifying clown Pennywise. Back in 1990, a two-part psychological horror miniseries of the novel was aired with Tim Curry playing an absolutely amazing Pennywise, but now plans are to make a two-part movie version for the big screen.

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