Some big names are joining forces for Hulu’s new miniseries, 11.22.63, and today at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, star James Franco and executive producer J.J. Abrams discussed adapting Stephen King’s novel.
Franco stars as Jake Epping, a man from the present who travels back in time to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Franco remarked that for those born after that event occurred, as he was, things have gotten blurred as far as how traumatic it was.
Said the actor, “It’s a big event, but it’s sort of become, in a weird way, legend for my generation. It feels like Marilyn Monroe or James Dean, when in fact it was this horrific event. I thought this story and this approach were so great because it’s a fresh way in. We’re not exactly telling a history lesson. With Jake Epping, you have a new in to the story. You get to learn everything all over again but from a completely fresh perspective we haven’t seen before. It’s a way to guide a new generation into what happened.”
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Franco stars as Jake Epping, a man from the present who travels back in time to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Franco remarked that for those born after that event occurred, as he was, things have gotten blurred as far as how traumatic it was.
Said the actor, “It’s a big event, but it’s sort of become, in a weird way, legend for my generation. It feels like Marilyn Monroe or James Dean, when in fact it was this horrific event. I thought this story and this approach were so great because it’s a fresh way in. We’re not exactly telling a history lesson. With Jake Epping, you have a new in to the story. You get to learn everything all over again but from a completely fresh perspective we haven’t seen before. It’s a way to guide a new generation into what happened.”
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