11/22/63 series on Hulu

[Bev Vincent]

I imagine they're to control the light somehow. Cut down on flare-ups, keep the level constant as they move.

[mae]

[mattgreenbean]

Cool clips I guess, but I wish something interesting was actually happening in them haha

[herbertwest]

Any chance to be a cameo?

[Jimimck]

Has to be surely. He does in a lot of his stuff, so fingers crossed he does this too.

[Bev Vincent]

He tends to only cameo in shows where he is heavily involved -- we'll see, though.

[Jimimck]

Bev, was his involvement with Under the Dome quite a bit more significant than with this?

[Bev Vincent]

Bev, was his involvement with Under the Dome quite a bit more significant than with this?

Yes -- he wrote the script to the opening episode of Season 2.

[Bev Vincent]

[Bev Vincent]

Volo Auto Museum’s Christine on loan to Stephen King

one of the museum’s most recognizable Hollywood cars soon will return with significantly souped-up star power. On loan to Stephen King himself is the museum’s red 1958 Plymouth Fury, better known as Christine from the movie of the same name. King requested the car be shipped to Ontario, Canada, where he is working with producer J.J. Abrams, actor James Franco and others on a miniseries based on King’s novel, “11/22/63.”

Grams received a call from a member of the “11/22/63” production crew July 23.

“Mr. King requested that his crew find a Christine for use in his miniseries,” Grams said, recalling his phone conversation with crew member Bryan Lee. “Basically, Stephen King puts little cues in his movies from past works. Our Christine is making a cameo.”

As part of a press conference this week in Ontario, the crew unveiled Volo’s Christine — much to King’s surprise.

“He was super excited that they got the car,” Grams said of the renowned author whose novel “Christine” was developed into a hit film in 1983. “A crew member overheard Mr. King say he remembered our car as ‘pristine Christine,’ and that the car ‘remembered’ him, too.”

In exchange for the loan of the car, the museum requested only to be compensated for shipping costs — and to have King autograph Christine’s dashboard.

“The coolness factor is a 10 on this one,” Grams said. “Stephen King is just such a legend in the entertainment world, and the movie ‘Christine’ was one of the biggest car movies ever made. For us, it’s a real honor and pleasure.”

[zelig]

Very cool!

[Jimimck]

That is just awesome!

[herbertwest]

I wonder if Steve ever tried to buy one

[stroppygoblin]

So, all you super collectors out there - now you need to get a signed Christine!!

[zelig]

So, all you super collectors out there - now you need to get a signed Christine!!

That's what I was thinking too...

[Randall Flagg]

I don't think King actually wants to collect cars.
If he did, he would need a rather large garage.
Christine and FAB8 will take up a few spaces...not to mention the 8-15 states of "Christine".
Still very cool.

I wonder if/how much King has ever driven either models.

[Randall Flagg]

So, all you super collectors out there - now you need to get a signed Christine!!

That's what I was thinking too...

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[Merlin1958]

I don't think King actually wants to collect cars.
If he did, he would need a rather large garage.
Christine and FAB8 will take up a few spaces...not to mention the 8-15 states of "Christine".
Still very cool.

I wonder if/how much King has ever driven either models.

As I recall, Jerome in his and to some degree our day, driving was the last thing you did in cars like that. Now, "parking" them, that was where the "money" was. Am I right?

[Cordial Jim]

That is some kind of awesome! I wonder how much value King's sig added to that Fury. Can't wait for this!

[cowboy_ed]

pretty sure King owns one of those racing tesla's

[mtdman]

How does Abrams have time for this and the Star Wars movie at the same time?

[Jimimck]

Hmmm King and Abrams hanging out. Wonder what an R rated Dark Side story written by King would look like for Star Wars...

[mae]

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2...n-dallas.html/

What you see above isn’t a vintage photo taken of Abraham Zapruder on his Dealey Plaza perch on Nov. 22, 1963. Looks like it, but, no. Try April 16, 1991, when Oliver Stone was in Dallas filming JFK. It was taken by The Dallas Morning News’ Randy Eli Grothe. And this is what that very same scene looked like 22 years later, when Parkland writer-director Peter Landesman brought Paul Giamatti, as Zapruder, to Dealey Plaza to stage the assassination of President John Kennedy. Time and again the killing of the president has been recreated in downtown Dallas — for narrative films (including 2013′s Killing Kennedy with Rob Lowe), for documentaries, forever. We live in what sci-fi writers call a time loop, experiencing the same thing over and over … and over.

But, perhaps, this time will be different. That, after all, is the plot of Stephen King’s 11/22/63, the best-selling, well-regarded story of a Maine high-school English teacher who, in 2011, time-travels to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from killing the president. That book is being turned into a Hulu series by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. And that series, starring James Franco as time-traveling English teacher Jake Epping, will film in Dallas at some point next month.

Production has been underway for months in Ontario, but city officials and Dallas County documents confirm that 11/22/63 will shoot in Dallas for five days in early October. They won’t say where (well, you can probably guess) or precisely when, only that “they are doing more than what Parkland did,” says Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission.

11/22/63’s cast includes Josh Duhamel and Chris Cooper — and the great Cherry Jones as Marguerite Oswald. Daniel Webber plays her boy, Lee; Lucy Fry, his wife Marina. And the more-or-less-trustworthy cast lists shows Jack Ruby, Will Fritz and Ruth Paine appear in at least one of the expected nine episodes.

When he was at the Majestic Theatre in November 2011, King talked about coming to Dallas to research the book, spending time at the Sixth Floor Museum and on Greenville Avenue. He apologized for referring to KLIF as “K-Life” in the novel; he said he felt like a “carpetbagger” when writing about Dallas. And he talked at length about “the extremism” that infected the city in 1963, resulting in the attack on Adlai Stevenson at Memorial Auditorium.

Last time Franco was in the area, if I’m not mistaken, was when he gave the commencement address at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2012. It was pretty, pretty, pretty good.

[TCCBodhi]

I was hoping to be an "extra" for the filming, but I've got a high-stress medical hearing going on in the day or 2 following the scenes that I have to be mentally prepared for. I was going to take along a copy of the book to have cast/crew, King if he showed for filming, to auction for the Haven Fund if I could manage it. It isn't going to happen though.

[Merlin1958]

I was hoping to be an "extra" for the filming, but I've got a high-stress medical hearing going on in the day or 2 following the scenes that I have to be mentally prepared for. I was going to take along a copy of the book to have cast/crew, King if he showed for filming, to auction for the Haven Fund if I could manage it. It isn't going to happen though.

"Wussy"!!! LOL J/K

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Hope everything goes well for you!!