Pop Culture Quickie: If '11.22.63' was a movie, do you think it deserves more than 1 star?

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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 that’s not the question being asked, is it? No. The question is “do you think it deserves more than one star?”
Without writing a full review, I will say this. 11.22.63 is one of the best adaptations of a Stephen King novel. Even taking into account the necessary changes from page to screen, it captures the essence of 11/22/63 extremely well.
Four out of five stars from this reviewer.

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