11.22.63 with Chris Landon
Episode 166, Feb 22, 2023, 09:00 AM
Joining Team Kingcast today is film director Chris Landon (Freaky, Happy Death Day) who's here to talk a bit about his new movie, the Amblin-esque We Have a Ghost starring David Harbour and Anthony Mackie as well as a deep dive into King's massive tome. The boys investigate how important 11.22.63 was to kicking off a new renaissance of King, how iffy the Hulu adaptation was, the dangerous game of fixing past wrongs and altering the timeline and how tempting it would be to do that even knowing you could screw everything up.
The topic once again turns to 11.22.63, Stephen King's epic time travel story in which an average every day teacher is recruited to travel back in time to stop JFK's assassination. It's a tricky thing, messing with time. Turns out the timestream doesn't want to be tinkered with and all sort of weird things happen to our hapless protagonist as he investigates Oswald and a good many of the conspiracy theories before time runs out.