Pop Culture Quickie: If '11.22.63' was a movie, do you think it deserves more than 1 star?
On Quora, an anonymous member asks: If '11.22.63' was a movie, do you think it deserves more than 1 star? From what I understand, 11.22.63 was going to be a feature film (aka “theatrically-released movie”), but the people involved (the late Jonathan Demme had optioned it) had an incredibly hard time adapting it into a viable screenplay. 11/22/63 (the novel) is a long and exquisitely detailed book, so the film version was abandoned. Fortunately, J.J. Abrams is a huge fan of the book, and when he emailed Stephen King to say how much he’d loved it, he also mentioned that it should be made into a miniseries. © 2011 Scribner (I love that book cover!) So…J.J. Abrams, James Franco, Stephen King, and Bridgette Carpenter teamed up and produced 11.22.63 for the Hulu streaming network. Not as a movie, but as a nine-part series. © 2016 Hulu (This guy doesn’t look like Lee Harvey Oswald as much as Gary Oldman did in JFK, but he did a great job.) But t