director J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions is in talks to bring Stephen King’s decades-in-development time-travel story 11/22/63 to the small screen via Warner Bros. Television.The story revolves around Jake Epping, an English teacher and self-professed “babe in the woods” politically who is convinced by a friend to undertake an improbable and spectacular act of political engineering. Having found a Being John Malkovich-style pathway through time that leads to 1958, a friend talks him into using the pathway to travel to the past, establish himself a residence with money he can win by betting on sporting events whose results he already knows, and lie in wait for five years before stopping Lee Harvey Oswald from killing President John F. Kennedy.The series is intended for a life on cable, which would be new territory for Bad Robot, who primarily work in features and on network TV with hits like Revolution and Person of Interest.
