I really wanted him to come in during the election year. The first of many deviations from the book: Why send Jake back to 1960 on the show instead of 1958?īridget Carpenter: Two reasons. But whether you read the book or not, I'm curious what everybody thought now that the whole thing is available to watch, so fire away in the comments. Though the interview was conducted in January, when I'd seen every episode but the finale, we go through a whole bunch of spoilers for both the show and the book, so it made sense to save it for now.īelow, we dive very deep into the minutiae of the book and Carpenter's rationale for various changes. I promised I'd run the full Carpenter interview when we got closer to the end of the miniseries, ultimately deciding to hold it until today's release of the series finale. (You can watch this final scene and the recitation of the poem on YouTube.) Since it doesn’t appear in print in any book I know of, I have given it a title and line breaks that seem appropriate to me for poetry, and I hope Stephen King would approve.When Hulu's 11.22.63 debuted back in February, my review – which praised James Franco's performance as a teacher who travels back in time to stop the JFK assassination, but was disappointed in some of the changes made in adapting Stephen King's novel – included a couple of quotes from writer/producer Bridget Carpenter about why she chose to gloss over my favorite part of the book, where Franco's character gets to enjoy being a high school teacher in early '60s Texas. On the message boards at, one poster stated that they had tweeted Bridget Carpenter, writer and one of the producers of the TV series, and she stated that Stephen King, not her, had in fact actually written the poem for the screenplay. The poem did not appear in the book, but in the 8-part mini-series it is recited in a scene at the very end of the last episode, thus it generated some online discussion and comment at various websites, along with questions about who actually wrote it. Though probably not generally thought of as a poet, he did write this touching little gem of a poem for the 2016 television adaptation of his book 11/22/63, about a time-traveler that goes back in time to prevent the President Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963.

His books have sold well over 300 million copies.

We Did Not Ask for This Room by Stephen KingĪuthor Stephen King is well known for his horror, suspense, and fantasy novels, and the movies adapted from many of them.

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